Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003 (Wesleyan Poetry Series) - Hardcover

Valentine, Jean

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0819567124 ISBN 13: 9780819567123

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press, 2004

Synopsis

This volume gathers together all of Jean Valentine's published poems and includes a new collection, "Door in the Mountain."

About this title

From the Publisher:

6 x 9 trim.

About the Author:

JEAN VALENTINE is the author of, most recently, The Cradle of the Real Life (Wesleyan, 2000) and Growing Darkness, Growing Light (1997). She has received many awards and honors, including the 2000 Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. Valentine teaches at Sarah Lawrence College, New York University, and the 92nd Street Y.

Jean Valentine teaches at Sarah Lawrence College, New York University, and the 92nd Street Y.

JEAN VALENTINE won the Yale Younger Poets Award for her first book, Dream Barker, in 1965. Author of seven other books of poetry, including most recently Growing Darkness, Growing Light (1997) and The River at Wolf (1992), she has taught at Sarah Lawrence College, the Graduate Writing Program at NYU, and the 92nd Street Y. Valentine received the Shelley Memorial Prize from the Poetry Society of America in 2000 and the 2006 Morton Dauwen Zabel Award given by the American of Letters to "a progressive, original, and experimental writer."

About this edition

• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0819567124
• ISBN 13: 9780819567123
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 308