Jean Valentine
Who is Jean Valentine
Jean Valentine (April 27, 1934 – December 29, 2020) was an American poet and the New York State Poet Laureate from 2008 to 2010. Her poetry collection, Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965–2003, was awarded the 2004 National Book Award for Poetry.
Biography
Jean Valentine was born in Chicago, Illinois, on April 27, 1934. Her father was a Navy man. She received a bachelor of arts degree and a master of arts degree from Radcliffe College, and lived most of her life in New York City, where she died on December 29, 2020.
Her most recent book, Shirt In Heaven, was published in 2015. Before that, Break the Glass, published in 2010, was a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.Valentine's first book, Dream Barker (Yale University Pres...
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Jean Valentine Poems
- I Have Lived In Your Face
I have lived in your face.
Have I been you?
Your mother?
giving you birth â??
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- Dream Barker
We met for supper in your flat-bottomed boat.
I got there first: in a white dress: I remember
Wondering if you'd come. Then you shot over the bank,
A Virgilian Nigger Jim, and poled us off
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- Elegy For Jane Kenyon (2)
Jane is big
with death, Don
sad and kind - Jane
though she's dying
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- La Chalupa, The Boat
I am twenty,
drifting in la chalupa,
the blue boat painted with roses,
white liliesâ??
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- Ghost Elephants
In the elephant field tall green ghost elephants
with your cargo of summer leaves
at night I heard you breathing
at the window Don't you ever
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- Timelymondstadt: valentine's day 2022 jean
- Samrasnake: "red cloth" by jean valentine
red cloth
i lie on the ground
otherwise nothing could hold
i put my hand on the ground
the membrane is gone
and nothing does hold
your place in the ground
is all of it
and it is breathing
- Hypergoodluck: dream blunt rotation list, updated: luis sera, codetalker mgs5, lil grey mgs4, king dorophin, roulx kaard, ryan goldsmith, v dmc, vincent valentine, ravus nox fleur, jean pierre polnareff, and ignatz victor. good god there’s not enough weed in this world
- Mayacpopa: “love not gone anywhere”
jean valentine:
- Olive_muchoki: lord come
we were sad on the ground.
~ jean valentine (i came to you)
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