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Door in the mountain : new and collected poems, 1965-2003

Title
Door in the mountain : new and collected poems, 1965-2003 / Jean Valentine.
Author
Valentine, Jean.
Publication
Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, [2004], ©2004.

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Description
xv, 285 pages; 24 cm.
Summary
"This volume gathers together all of Jean Valentine's published poems and includes a new collection, "Door in the Mountain.""--BOOK JACKET.
Series Statement
Wesleyan poetry
Uniform Title
Wesleyan poetry.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Annunciation -- In our child house -- Nine -- The girl -- Mother -- Eighteen -- "She sang" -- A bone standing up -- The Hawthorn robin mends with thorns -- Out in a sailboat -- I came to you -- Cousin -- The very bad horse -- Once -- So many secrets -- Eleventh brother -- Once in the nights -- Under the gold -- The windows -- Go clear -- The coin -- October morning -- I heard my left hand -- In the evening -- We cut the new day -- Occurrence of white -- How have I hurt you? -- Do flies remember us -- You drew my head -- The little, faintly blue clay eggs -- Happiness (3) -- Letter -- I could never let go -- The basket house -- The house and the world -- In your eyes -- Woman, leaving -- Trim my hoofs -- Two poems for Matthew Shepard -- The blue dory, the soul -- The rally -- The growing Christ of Tzintzuntzan -- Sheep -- To the Bardo -- Rodney dying (4) -- Door in the mountain -- Monarch butterfly -- My old body -- Inkwell daybreak -- The path between -- The night sea -- The shirt -- One foot in the dark -- A weed green -- Fears : night cabin -- So wild -- I have lived in your face -- A goldfinch in the rain -- The grain of the wood -- The push or fly -- I would be -- Avalon -- Do you remember? -- Advent calendar -- We didn't know each other -- Touch with your finger -- Noon in the line outside -- Inside -- Your number is lifting off my hand -- The needle north -- The passing -- In the burning air -- Little house -- First love -- For a woman dead at thirty -- Miles from home -- To Salter's Point -- Lines in dejection -- Sleep drops its nets -- Deja-vu -- Sunset at Wellfleet -- Asleep over lines from Willa Cather -- Cambridge by night -- To a friend -- Waiting -- Sasha and the poet -- The second dream -- A bride's hours -- Dawn -- The bath -- Night -- Afterbirth -- Sarah's christening day -- Tired of London -- Cambridge, April 27, 1957 -- New York, April 27, 1962 -- September 1963 -- Riverside -- For Teed -- My grandmother's watch -- The beast with two backs -- The little flower -- Sex -- Adam and Eve : poem on folded paper -- Dream barker -- To my soul -- The couples -- Fireside -- Solomon -- In the museum -- By the boat pond -- The summer house -- Woods -- Her dream : the child -- Orpheus and Eurydice -- Goodbye -- Separation -- Thinking about Cain -- Dearest -- April -- Broken-down girl -- Bin dream, west college east, D-11 -- Bin dream #2, interview with Stravinsky -- Death house -- Archangel -- Half an hour -- Visiting day at school -- The child Jung -- Coltrane, Syeeda's song flute -- Photograph of Delmore Schwartz -- The torn-down building -- Moon man -- The child and the terrorist, the terrorist and the child -- Night -- Pilgrims -- After elegies -- 'Autumn day' -- He said -- Forces -- Kin -- Anesthesia -- After elegies (2) -- 3 a.m. in New York -- Space -- Letter from a country room -- A child's death -- Revolution -- Three voices one night in the community kitchen -- The knife -- Seeing L'Atalante -- "Twenty days' journey" / Huub Oosterhuis and Judith Herzberg -- This hate -- This minute -- Couvre-Feu : after Paul Eluard -- Fidelities -- Susan's photograph -- Outside the frame -- Forces (2) : song -- Beka, 14 -- Dufy postcard -- The field -- Living together -- Here now -- The forgiveness dream : man from the Warsaw ghetto -- Turn -- Prayer in fever -- Working -- Silences : a dream of governments -- After elegies (2) -- The messenger -- Huub Oosterhuis : Orpheus -- Osip Mandelstam : 394 -- December 21st -- Sanctuary -- What happened -- Turn (2) : after years -- The burden of memory -- February 9th -- "Love and work" : Freud dying -- Letter from a stranger -- "Actuarial file" -- Lines from a story -- March 21st -- Willi, home -- To Raphael, angel of happy meeting -- Primitive painting : liberation day -- Awake, this summer -- Mandelstam -- The drinker's wife writes back -- Birthday letter from South Carolina -- The counselor retires, and then he dies -- Juliana -- Visit -- Snow landscape, in a glass globe -- Everything starts with a letter -- About love -- Little song in Indian summer -- The king -- High school boyfriend -- Tonight I can write ... -- Trust me -- X -- Spring and its flowers -- The summer was not long enough -- Still life, for Matisse -- Still life : in the epidemic -- Ikon -- The year of the snake -- The one you wanted to be is the one you are -- Ironwood -- Bud -- To a young poet -- Foraging -- Alfred and the abortion -- Redemption -- Seeing you -- The free abandonment blues -- The first station -- Night lake -- The badlands said -- The Missouri speaks -- The river at wolf -- The ring -- Barrie's dream, the wild geese -- Fox glacier -- Lindis Pass, Borage -- By the Tekapo River, 100 degrees -- After consciousness of this big form -- Everyone was drunk -- In fear (1) -- In fear (2) -- In this egg -- The under voice -- Come Akhmatova -- James Wright : in memory -- Wish-mother -- At Cullen's Island -- The wisdom gravy -- American river sky alcohol father -- The morning of my mother's death -- The night of my mother's death -- Second mother -- The sea of serenity -- My mother's body, my professor, my bower -- Butane -- At my mother's grave -- We go through our mother's things -- Death asphodel -- To the memory of David Kalstone -- The first angel -- At the door -- Yield everything, force nothing -- Alone, alive -- Flower -- Skate -- Guardian angel in New York -- To Plath, to Sexton -- The power table -- Rain -- Sick, away from home -- Friend -- Homesick -- New life -- Bees -- The tractors -- River Jordan -- Night porch -- World-light -- Snow family -- To the black Madonna of Chartres -- Tell me, what is the soul -- Mastectomy -- Secret room, danger house -- Red for blood -- Yellow for gold -- Green for the land -- Black for the people -- Home -- Long Irish summer day -- Dog skin coat -- Fellini in purgatory -- Elegy for Jane Kenyon -- You are not one in a sequence -- Alcohol -- Where do you look for me? -- Documentary : AIDS support group -- Poem with words by Thornton Dial -- A bit of rice -- The night of Wally's service, Wally said -- Rodney dying -- Rodney dying (2) -- Father Lynch returns from the dead -- The baby rabbits in the garden -- Mother and child, body and soul -- Soul -- Soul (2) -- The mother dreams -- Fistula -- Soul (3) -- Open heart -- Listening -- The pen -- Elegy for Jane Kenyon (2) -- Black wolf -- Mother bones -- They lead me -- Your mouth "appeared to me" -- Mare and newborn foal -- Truth -- October premonition -- Rodney dying (3) -- November -- Labrador -- 1945 -- Leaving -- Running for a train -- The Welsh poet -- Radio : poetry reading, NPR -- The tower roof -- For a woman dead at thirty (2) -- The blind stirring of love -- Little map -- The drinker -- The drinker (2) -- Happiness -- Happiness (2) : the I Ching -- He leaves them -- Away from you -- Child -- Her lost book : 1 -- Her lost book : 2 -- Her lost book : 3.
ISBN
0819567124
LCCN
2004016019
OCLC
  • ocm55947959
  • SCSB-5115938
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries