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(For the brief bio, please go here.)
Jean Valentine was born in Chicago, earned her B.A. from Radcliffe College, and has lived most of her life in New York City. She won the Yale Younger Poets Award for her first book, Dream Barker, in 1965. Her eleventh book of poetry is Break the Glass, just out from Copper Canyon Press. Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems 1965 - 2003 was the winner of the 2004 National Book Award for Poetry. (All of her books are listed below.)
Jean was the State Poet of New York for two years, starting in the spring of 2008. She received the 2009 Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets, and has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and awards from the NEA, The Bunting Institute, The Rockefeller Foundation, The New York Council for the Arts, and The New York Foundation for the Arts, as well as the Maurice English Prize, the Teasdale Poetry Prize, and The Poetry Society of America's Shelley Memorial Prize in 2000.
She has taught at Sarah Lawrence College, the Graduate Writing Program of New York University, Columbia University, and the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan.
"Looking
into a Jean Valentine poem 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."
--
Adrienne Rich
BOOKS BY JEAN VALENTINE:
Break the Glass
(Copper Canyon Press, 2010)
Little Boat
(Wesleyan Poetry, 2007)
Door
in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems 1965 - 2003
(Wesleyan Poetry, 2004)
The
Cradle of the Real Life
(Wesleyan Poetry, 2000)
Growing
Darkness, Growing Light
(Carnegie Mellon Press, 1997)
The
Under Voice: Selected Poems
(Salmon
Publishing, 1995)
The
River at Wolf
(Alice James Books, 1992)
Home
Deep Blue: New and Selected Poems
(Alice James Books, 1989)
The Messenger
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1979)
Ordinary
Things
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1974)
Pilgrims
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1969)
Dream Barker
(Yale University Press, 1965)
and
The
Lighthouse Keeper: Essays on the Poetry of Eleanor
Ross Taylor (ed. Jean Valentine. Seneca Review, 2001)
Lucy, a chapbook, was published by Sarabande Books in 2009.
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Jean Valentine won the Yale Younger Poets Award for her first book, Dream Barker, in 1965. Her eleventh book of poetry is Break the Glass, just out from Copper Canyon Press. Her previous collection, Little Boat was published by Wesleyan in 2007. Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems 1965–2003 was the winner of the 2004 National Book Award for Poetry. The recipient of the 2009 Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets, Valentine has taught at Sarah Lawrence, New York University, and Columbia.
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