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Jean Valentine: This-World Company
Kazim Ali and John Hoppenthaler, editorsOver the course of more than four decades, contemporary American poet Jean Valentine has written eleven books of stunning, spirit-inflected poetry. This collection of essays, assembled over several years by Kazim Ali and John Hoppenthaler, brings together twenty-six pieces on all stages of Valentine's career by a range of poets, scholars, and admirers.
Valentine's poetry has long been valued for its dreamlike qualities, its touches of the personal and the political, and its mesmerizing phrasing. Valentine is a National Book Award winner and was named the State Poet of New York in 2008. She has taught a number of popular workshops and has been awarded a Bunting Institute Fellowship, a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, and the Shelley Memorial Prize.
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Cover
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Title
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Copyright
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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Little Light on the Road: An Informal Primer on Reading Jean Valentine, in Six Brief Sections
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Dream Barker: Preoedipal Fusion and Radiant Boundaries in Jean Valentine
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Pilgrims
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Orpheus and Eurydice and Gestures of Turning: Palimpsest in the Poetry of Jean Valentine
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On Jean Valentine's The Messenger
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“Through Such Hard Wind and Light”: Jean Valentine's Elegy for Elizabeth Bishop
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Jean Valentine's Spontaneous Mythologies
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Lost and Found: Jean Valentine's Poems of Childhood and Motherhood
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Lit from Inside: Jean Valentine's River at Wolf
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Ghost Sonnets
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Incarnational
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Remnants and Recognition
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Be Still and Know: Silence in the Poetry of Jean Valentine
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“This Close to God this Close to You”: Incarnation in Jean Valentine
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Globe on Fire: Jean Valentine as a Political Poet
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Everyone Was Drunk: Reading Jean Valentine through a Shot Glass Lens
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The Gift of the Double Swerve (Jean Valentine's Endings)
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For Jean Valentine, Out of Thirty-five Years
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“The History of the World Without Words”: Mysticism and Social Conscience in the Poetry of Jean Valentine
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“Awake too you are everyone”: Gestures of Empathy in Jean Valentine's New Poems
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Where Do You Look for Me: The Afterlife in the Poems of Jean Valentine
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Artifact as Metaphor: Reading Nearness in Jean Valentine's Little Boat
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Secret Book Written in the Dirt: Jean Valentine's Lucy: A Poem
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On Saying No: Valentine and Dickinson Break the Glass
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The Umwelt of the Question: Notes on Territory and Desire
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Contributors
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