Lucy
Jean Valentine · 2009
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About the book
""Lucy / your secret book / that you leaned over and wrote just in the dirt - / Not having to have an ending / Not having to last"... and so begins Jean Valentine's provocative new work, Lucy, a poem that pays homage to the three-million-year-old skeleton of the earliest known hominid. Through the juxtaposing of objects, people, and events - from a postage stamp to Newton, from Chekhov to Iraq - this poem, with a deep sense of gratitude and profound longing, celebrates the creative power of the female by introducing us to our oldest human ancestor. In a dreamlike and often fractured syntax that is vintage Valentine, Lucy, the "wildgood mother" of our species, can once again be heard; not because Valentine has given her a voice, but rather this wise and generous poet has taught us the art of listening"--BOOK JACKET.
Book details
- Year
- 2009
- Language
- English
- Series
- Quarternote chapbook series -- #8
- Publisher
- Sarabande Books
- Editions
- 1
- Pages
- 19
- ISBN
- 9781932511680
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