Valentine, Jean / [Jane Cooper].

The River at Wolf. [Association Copy] –

Cambridge, Alice James Books, 1992. 14 cm x 21.5 cm. 60 pages. Original softcover. Near fine condition. Contains a dedication by the author Jean Valentine to Jane Cooper: “For Jane – with lifelong admiration & love from Jeanie – November 4th – Clinton Day ! 1992”.

Includes for example the following poems: Spring and Its Flowers / Still Life, for Matisse / Ikon / The Year of the Snake / Ironwood / To a Young Poet / Alfred and the Abortion / The Free Abandonment Blues / The Badlands Said / The River at Wolf / Fox Glacier / After Consciousness of This Big Form / In Fear / Come Akhmatova etc.

″Jean Valentine has written a visionary book. If it is built with the brick and wood of this world, the light that pours through its windows is searing, healing.”—Marie Howe

″You have to keep listening to Jean Valentine’s work, because every time some shape of sadness or recognition rises up in you as a familiar emotion, the poem veers off, leaves what you already know behind… Her work is so subtly not what you think, and of the spirit, and as fresh as water, or cool weather.” -Robert Hass

″Jean Valentine opens a path to a mature place where there is ‘no inside wall’: rapturous, risky, shy of words but desperately true to them, these are poems that only she could write.” -Seamus Heaney

″Who dares to write these poems? They speak with the accuracy of dreams and the audacity of revelation. Jean Valentine has written a visionary book. If it is built with the brick and wood of this world, the light that pours through its windows is searing, healing, divine- ‘the luminous room.’ Where is this place? We want to live there.” -Marie Howe

″Looking into a Jean Valentine poems is like looking into a lake: you can see your own outline, and the shapes of the upper world, reflected among rocks, underwater life, glint of lost bottles, drifted leaves. The known and familiar become one with the mysterious and half-wild, at the place where consciousness and the subliminal meet. This is a poetry of the highest order, because it lets us into spaces and meanings we couldn’t approach in any other way. In all her work, most astonishingly in this new book, Jean Valentine offers us the danger and depth of the ordinary, and we shiver with recognition and relief.” -Adrienne Rich

• Keywords: 20th Century Literature · American Literature · American Poetry Collection · Poetry · Signed
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0914086952
• Inventory Number: 72264AB

EUR 175,--