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Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54 EAN: 9780819568502 ISBN: 0819568503 Label: Wesleyan Manufacturer: Wesleyan Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 84 Publication Date: 2007-10-02 Publisher: Wesleyan Studio: Wesleyan
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Editorial Reviews: Following her National Book Award-winning Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003, Jean Valentine returns with a meditative and magical new collection. In Little Boat, Valentine continues her exploration of spiritual life, confronting the realities of aging and death in the serene and dreamlike voice so beloved by her many readers. Infusing even the most melancholy subjects with warmth and humanity, Little Boat explores such subjects as grief, ordinary objects, illness, and memory, carrying the reader into disparate worlds, rendering the complexity of our common experience through startling images. The poet's extraordinary juxtapositions blur the boundaries of the material world and the invisible, the given and the assumed, the present and the sometimes recently absent. Readers will find Valentine's quiet epiphanies on rich display here, as this much-heralded poet quietly merges the sorrowful and the sublime.