Break the glass

by Jean Valentine

Paper Book, 2010

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Port Townsend, Wash. : Copper Canyon Press, c2010.

Description

In her eleventh collection, the author, a National Book award-winning poet, characteristically weds a moral imperative to imaginative and linguistic leaps and bounds. Whether writing elegies, meditations on aging, or an extended homage to Lucy, the earliest known hominid, the pared-down compactness of her tone and vision reveals a singular voice in American poetry.--From publisher description.

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LibraryThing member poetontheone
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.
LibraryThing member dasam
A quite epigrammatic collection of poems, quiet but with depth of thought and feeling.
LibraryThing member b.masonjudy
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.

Awards

Pulitzer Prize (Finalist — Poetry — 2011)

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