Jean Valentine : this-world company /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Kazim Ali -- Little light on the road: an informal primer on reading Jean Valentine, in Six Brief Sections / Catherine Barnett -- Dream barker: preoedipal fusion and radiant boundaries in Jean Valentine / Lee Upton -- Pilgrims / Lee Briccetti -- Orpheus and Eurydice and gestures of turning: Palimpsest in the poetry of Jean Valentine / Kathleen Fagley -- On Jean Valentine's The messenger / Philip Booth -- "Through such hard wind and light": Jean Valentine's Elegy for Elizabeth Bishop / Michael Waters -- Jean Valentine's spontaneous mythologies / Jonathan Blunk -- Lost and found: Jean Valentine's poems of childhood and motherhood / Dorothy Barresi -- Lit from Inside: Jean Valentine's River at wolf / Martha Collins -- Ghost sonnets / Mark Doty -- Incarnational / Fanny Howe -- Remnants and recognition / James Harms -- Be still and know: silence in the poetry of Jean Valentine / Suzanne Cleary -- "This close to God this close to you": incarnation in Jean Valentine / Amy Newman -- Globe on fire: Jean Valentine as a political poet / Maggie Anderson -- Everyone was drunk: reading Jean Valentine through a shot glass lens / Jeffrey Skinner -- The gift of the double swerve (Jean Valentine's endings) / Brenda Hillman -- For Jean Valentine, out of thirty-five years / Alan Williamson -- "The history of the world without words": mysticism and social conscience in the poetry of Jean Valentine / Brian Teare -- "Awake too you are everyone": gestures of empathy in Jean Valentine's new poems / Rachel Moritz, Juliet Patterson -- Where do you look for me: the afterlife in the poems of Jean Valentine / Eve Grubin -- Artifact as metaphor: reading nearness in Jean Valentine's Little boat / Miguel Murphy -- Secret book written in the dirt: Jean Valentine's Lucy: a poem / Celia Bland -- On saying no: Valentine and Dickinson break the glass / Julie Carr -- The umwelt of the question: notes on territory and desire / Bhanu Kapil.…”
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