Jean Valentine: This-world Company Project Muse Upcc Books

Collected essays on the work of Jean Valentine| Over the course of more than four decades, contemporary American poet Jean Valentine has written eleven books of stunning, spirit-inflected poetry. This collection of essays, assembled over several years by Kazim Ali and John Hoppenthaler, brings together twenty-six pieces on all stages of Valentine's career by a range of poets, scholars, and admirers. Valentine's poetry has long been valued for its dreamlike qualities, its touches of the personal and the political, and its mesmerizing phrasing. Valentine is a National Book Award winner and was named the State Poet of New York in 2008. She has taught a number of popular workshops and has been awarded a Bunting Institute Fellowship, a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, and the Shelley Memorial Prize. 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. Edited By Kazim Ali And John Hoppenthaler. Includes Bibliographical References. Contents 6 Acknowledgments 8 Introduction / Kazim Ali 10 Little Light on the Road: An Informal Primer on Reading Jean Valentine, in Six Brief Sections / Catherine Barnett 20 Dream Barker: Preoedipal Fusion and Radiant Boundaries in Jean Valentine / Lee Upton 27 Pilgrims / Lee Briccetti 48 Orpheus and Eurydice and Gestures of Turning: Palimpsest in the Poetry of Jean Valentine / Kathleen Fagley 52 On Jean Valentine’s The Messenger / Philip Booth 69 “Through Such Hard Wind and Light”: Jean Valentine’s Elegy for Elizabeth Bishop / Michael Waters 79 Jean Valentine’s Spontaneous Mythologies / Jonathan Blunk 84 Lost and Found: Jean Valentine’s Poems of Childhood and Motherhood / Dorothy Barresi 90 Lit from Inside: Jean Valentine’s River at Wolf / Martha Collins 101 Ghost Sonnets / Mark Doty 113 Incarnational / Fanny Howe 120 Remnants and Recognition / James Harms 125 Be Still and Know: Silence in the Poetry of Jean Valentine / Suzanne Cleary 130 “This Close to God this Close to You”: Incarnation in Jean Valentine / Amy Newman 135 Globe on Fire: Jean Valentine as a Political Poet / Maggie Anderson 143 Everyone Was Drunk: Reading Jean Valentine through a Shot Glass Lens / Jeffrey Skinner 153 The Gift of the Double Swerve (Jean Valentine’s Endings) / Brenda Hillman 161 For Jean Valentine, Out of Thirty-five Years / Alan Williamson 168 “The History of the World Without Words”: Mysticism and Social Conscience in the Poetry of Jean Valentine / Brian Teare 173 “Awake too you are everyone”: Gestures of Empathy in Jean Valentine’s New Poems / Rachel Moritz and Juliet Patterson 198 Where Do You Look for Me: The Afterlife in the Poems of Jean Valentine / Eve Grubin 203 Artifact as Metaphor: Reading Nearness in Jean Valentine’s Little Boat / Miguel Murphy 208 Secret Book Written in the Dirt: Jean Valentine’s Lucy: A Poem / Celia Bland 223 On Saying No: Valentine and Dickinson Break the Glass / Julie Carr 232 The Umwelt of the Question: Notes on Territory and Desire / Bhanu Kapil 242 Contributors 248