Title
Light Me Down: The New & Collected Poems Of Jean Valentine,New
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Multiaward winner, including a National Book Award, Jean Valentine published twelve fulllength collections of poetry during her lifetime, and all of themplus an entirely new, unpublished manuscriptcan be found in this masterful collection of her lifes work.The new poems acknowledge the inevitability of death while tenderly musing on what remains from a world left behind. The poems have an intricate balance between the sadness of a life lived and illuminating how the remaining love is steadfast, irreversible, and abiding even as we transcend from this earth.In her later years, Jean would write poems on napkins, random scraps of paper, and even on a typewriter, and those close to her would collect these writings and transcribe them into a Word document so they wouldn't be lost. Even Jean's therapist transcribed a poem that she spoke in one of their sessionsa poem that can be found in this new work. Jean was always writing poetry wherever inspiration struck her, even through the struggle of her declining health. It was Jean's wish that her work landed back at her first home, Alice James Booksback to her origin point as a writer, coming full circle.In these last prayerful poems, the poet visits loss, death, and transitional states. Full of longing, connections, and intergenerational knowledge, Valentine continues the mystical journey that has carried her through a lifetime devoted to poetry. Spirits connect. Guides are everywhere as she is 'leaving all worlds behind.' Love doesn't disappear but is steadfast and without boundaries. A poet of deep tenderness for everything living, from a dying cricket to her living and lost friends, Valentine is full of gratitude for this world, writing: 'This is happiness. Old life,/ I'm glad, all my rubbed life/ I was found,/ I was written on a wall in air.' The reader too is full of gratitude for these moving last missives from a great poet.Ada Limon states, The extraordinary poems of Jean Valentine have often existed in the between spaces, the caves, the secret rooms of the mind. They are gorgeous wonders and curiosities that bring us a new kind of light. The Collected Poems of Jean Valentine will no doubt serve as an essential handbook for anyone looking to lean into the knotty questions of human existence.
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