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Born in April 27, 1934 / United States / English

Poems by Jean Valentine

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Elegy For Jane Kenyon

... how it's like Emily Dickinson'sBut Don says No ...

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Dream Barker

... To one side In a dish of ice was a shell shaped like a sand-dollar ...

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Late

... "Those doves" ...

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To Plath, To Sexton

... crashed through your house,what use then ...

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Sanctuary

... life. Yes I know: the thread you have to keep finding, over again, to  ...

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Half an Hour

... struck white together half an hour we tear  ...

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“Actuarial File”

... Someday, we will be able to take it in, that violence, hold it in our ...

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Mother and Child, Body and Soul

... your hair the hue of rain-drenched bark, your voice: ...

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The Knife

... there will be the little thrown-out globe of blood we left  ...

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The Rose

... come rest again on the country porch of my knees ...

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The River at Wolf

... God filled me with himself, like gold, inside,  ...

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In Prison

... In prison without being accused ...