
Break the Glass
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"As elliptical and demanding as Emily Dickinson, Valentine consistently rewards the reader."-Library Journal
In her eleventh collection-honored as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in poetry-Jean Valentine characteristically weds a moral imperative to imaginative and linguistic leaps and bounds. Whether writing elegies, meditations on aging, or an extended homage to Lucy, the earliest known hominid, the pared-down compactness of her tone and vision reveals a singular voice in American poetry. As Adrienne Rich has said of Valentine's work, "This is a poetry of the highest order, because it lets us into spaces and meanings we couldn't approach in any other way."
From "If a Person Visits Someone in a Dream, in Some Cultures the Dreamer Thanks Them":
At a hotel in another star. The rooms were cold and
damp, we were both at the desk at midnight asking if
they had any heaters. They had one heater. You are
ill, please you take it. Thank you for visiting my dream.
*
Can you breathe all right?
Break the glass shout
break the glass force the room
break the thread Open
the music behind the glass . . .
Jean Valentine, a former State Poet of New York, earned a National Book Award, the Wallace Stevens Award, and the Shelley Memorial Prize. She has taught at Sarah Lawrence, New York University, and Columbia University. She lives in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of New York City.
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- Cover
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Title Page
- Note to the Reader
- I
- In prison
- The whitewashed walls
- The Leopard
- Even all night long
- I was working
- "As with rosy steps the morn"
- Dear Family,
- Canoe
- The Japanese garden
- Ghost Elephants
- On a Passenger Ferry
- Then Abraham
- Traveler
- Coyote
- Hawkins Stable
- II
- Who watches
- Time is matter here
- Earth and the Librarian
- Her car
- The World inside This One
- Poet
- (Two were seen leaving.)
- The treeless hill
- The just-born rabbits
- The valley
- On the bus
- The branches
- Red cloth
- I I I
- Don't silence yourself, No te calles
- Eurydice who guides
- If a Person Visits Someone in a Dream, in Some Culturesthe Dreamer Thanks Them
- I dropped a plate
- Desert Prison
- You ask,
- The Young Mother
- I thought It's time
- On the CD, in the rainstorm
- Old love, I want to phone you
- Diana
- The older man among us
- He Disappeared into Complete Silence
- I am fain a page in the court of space
- IV
- Lucy
- My Work of Art
- Your Picture
- Outsider Art
- Notes
- About the Author
- Books by Jean Valentine
- Link
- Acknowledgments
- Copyright
- Lannan Literary Selections
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