Break the Glass

"As elliptical and demanding as Emily Dickinson, Valentine consistently rewards the reader." Library Journal In her eleventh collectionhonored as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in poetryJean Valentine 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. As A