Research Catalog

Title

Little boat / Jean Valentine.

Author

Valentine, Jean.

Publication

Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, [2007], ©2007.

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Details

Description

ix, 67 pages; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Wesleyan poetry

Uniform Title

Wesleyan poetry.

Contents

La Chalupa, the boat -- For her -- The artist in prison -- In memory -- But your touch -- The poet -- Photographs at her wake -- Mattress on the floor -- Lord of the world! -- The door is fallen down -- Door -- The father was a carrier -- Gray -- Once I was girls and boys -- The eleventh brother (2) -- "Remote objects of intense devotion" -- The first thing -- That I had treated you badly -- Day & night -- All around the outside -- The woman's poem -- Annunciation poem -- The poet's poem -- The teacher's poem -- Death poem -- The afterlife poem -- Hospital : far from home -- Hospital : at last -- Hospital : strange lights -- Hospital : if was euphoria -- Hospital : scraps -- The look -- I wanted to be sure to reach you -- When she told me -- This side -- His white jade eggs -- I was lying there -- The harrowing -- Where did! you come from/how did you arrive? -- What is the shape of your body? -- What do you remember about the earth? -- What are the consequences of silence? -- How will you/have you prepare(d) for your death? -- Maria Gravida -- Eye of water -- Moose and calf -- To my soul (2) -- The rose.

ISBN

• 9780819568502 (alk. paper)
• 0819568503 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2007013487

OCLC

• 122973543
• ocn122973543
• SCSB-5362184

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries