Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003

This National Book Award–winning volume presents nearly forty years of the renowned poet’s work. Between 1965 and 2003, Jean Valentine published nine critically acclaimed collections of poetry, including  Dream Barker (winner of the Yale Younger Poets Award),  Ordinary Things,  and  The River at Wolf . Spare and intensely-felt, Valentine’s poems present experience as only imperfectly graspable. This volume gathers together all of Valentine's published poems, presenting them a