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Legal name: Valentine, Jean Purcell
Birthdate: 1934-04-27
Date of death: 2020-12-29
Gender: female
Education: Radcliffe College (BA - General Studies)
Milton Academy
Occupations: poet
Awards and honors: Shelley Memorial Award (1999/2000)
Wallace Stevens Award (2009)
Relationships: Chase, James (husband)
Cause of death: Alzheimer's disease
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Places of residence: New York, New York, USA
Orinda, California, USA
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Ireland
Place of death: New York, New York, USA
Associated Place (for map): USA

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poetontheone 376 reviews

Break the Glass by Jean Valentine

Powerful and musical lyric poems of lamentation and reverie that blend the pain and wonder of modern life with the resonance of classical mythos. A strong collection by an important voice in contemporary American poetry.

Nov 22, 20162 other reviews

b.masonjudy 498 reviews

Break the glass by Jean Valentine

Break the Glass has a lot of space. The gaps in the poems forced me to fill in a lot of space, which bore the mark of careful attention rather than an exercise in minimalism.

Apr 3, 20202 other reviews

dasam 338 reviews

Break the Glass by Jean Valentine

A quite epigrammatic collection of poems, quiet but with depth of thought and feeling.

Jul 25, 20172 other reviews

dawnpen 67 reviews

Door In The Mountain: New And Collected Poems, 1965-2003 (Wesleyan Poetry) by Jean Valentine

Ahhhhhh. Everybody, all at once, with me: ahhhhhh. What a pleasure it is to read poems that don't want anything but to be honest. What a releif.

stuff about Valentine (two good interviews) can be found at http://www.jeanvalentine.com/

Nov 3, 2005