Valentine, Jean / [Jane Cooper].

Home Deep Blue: New and Selected Poems. [Association Copy] –

Cambridge, Alice James Books, No date (1988). 14 cm x 20.5 cm. 81 pages. Original softcover. Near fine. Inscribed by the author Jean Valentine to fellow poet Jane Cooper.

Includes for example the following poems: Willi, Home / Awake, This Summer / Mandelstam / The Drinker’s Wife Writes Back / Birthday Letter from South Carolina / The Counselor Retires, and Then He Dies / Little Song in Indian Summer / Firs Love / September 1963 / Sex / Orpheus and Eurydice / Photograph of Delmore Schwartz / 3 a.m. in New York etc.

″Eighteen new poems extend the trajectory of Jean Valentine’s work. Included are selections from her four previous books: “Dream Barker, Pilgrims, Ordinary Things,” and “The Messenger.” Her themes of pilgrimage, time, and human connection are revealed in intense meditations.” (Amazon)

• Keywords: 20th Century Literature · American literature · American Poetry Collection · Poetry · Signed · Women
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0914086812
• Inventory Number: 72263AB

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