Door in the Mountain. Jean Valentine

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Название Door in the Mountain
Автор произведения Jean Valentine
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Серия Wesleyan Poetry Series
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      ALSO BY JEAN VALENTINE

      The Lighthouse Keeper, Essays on the Poetry of Eleanor Ross Taylor, editor

      WESLEYAN POETRY

      DOOR in the

      MOUNTAIN

       New and Collected Poems, 1965–2003

      J E A N V A L E N T I N E

      WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY PRESS • MIDDLETOWN, CONNECTICUT

       for Pesha & Rebeccawith love

      Published by Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT 06459

      This collection © 2004 by Jean Valentine

      All rights reserved

      Printed in the United States of America

      5 4 3 2 1

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Valentine, Jean.

      Door in the mountain: new and collected poems, 1965-2003 / Jean Valentine.

      p. cm.—(Wesleyan poetry)

      Includes indexes.

      ISBN 0-8195-6712-4 (cloth: alk. paper)

      I. Title. II. Series.

      PS3572.A39D66 2004

      2004016019

      8II'.54—dc22

      Contents

       Acknowledgments

       NEW POEMS

       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