Valentine Jean – Shatter the Glass Collection

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Copper Canyon Press (paperback, 2012)

Publisher Marketing: 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.”

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