Jean Valentine

Light Me Down: The New & Collected Poems of Jean Valentine (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A nationally-renowned poet with this singular collection containing her entire life's work. This enormous collection will be a limited edition hardcover with a dust jacket, and it houses every single full-length collection she ever wrote. plus a completely new and unpublished manuscript. Foreword written by Anne Marie Macari In the last years of Jean's life, she expressed her desire for her work to find its home at Alice James Books. So this book is being published from Jean's wishes, in which we gladly accepted the honor.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Alice James Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. April 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781949944327
• Artikelnr.: 72334634

Autorenporträt

Jean Valentine was born in Chicago, earned her B.A. from Radcliffe College, and 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 13th book of poetry was Shirt in Heaven, published by Copper Canyon Press in 2015. Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems 1965 - 2003 won the 2004 National Book Award for Poetry. 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 also 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. In 2014 she was given an award for exceptional accomplishment in literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She was awarded Yale University's Bollingen Prize for Poetry in 2017. She taught at Sarah Lawrence College, the Graduate Writing Program of New York University, Columbia University, and the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan. Jean Valentine died on December 29, 2020, in New York, NY. She was 86.