The River at Wolf
“The River at Wolf” from The River at Wolf. Copyright © 1992 by Jean Valentine. Reprinted with the permission of Alice James Books.
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Poet Jean Valentine b. 1934
POET’S REGION U.S., Mid-Atlantic
Subjects Animals, Relationships, Nature, Marriage & Companionship, Seas, Rivers, & Streams, Love, Living, Religion, God & the Divine, Romantic Love
Holidays Valentine's Day
Biography
A longtime resident of New York City, Jean Valentine was named the State Poet of New York in 2008. Her first book of poems, Dream Barker and Other Poems, won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award in 1965. Subsequent collections of poems include The River at Wolf (1992), Little Boat (2007), and Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965–2003, which won the National Book Award in 2004.
Her lyric poems delve into dream . . .
Poems by Jean Valentine
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SUBJECT Animals, Relationships, Nature, Marriage & Companionship, Seas, Rivers, & Streams, Love, Living, Religion, God & the Divine, Romantic Love
POET’S REGION U.S., Mid-Atlantic
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