Illinois Authors

Copper Canyon Press, Port Townsend, Wash. : [2012]

"In her eleventh collection, National Book Award-winning poet Jean 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."--Jacket.

Wesleyan Univ Press, [Place of publication not identified] : 2011.

Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, Conn. : ©2004.

Presents a collection of the author's established works in addition to new poems, which deal with such topics as death, aging, and the passage of time.

AMS Press, New York : 1976 c1965.

Carnegie Mellon University Press, Pittsburgh, PA : 1997.

Contains forty-three poems by the award-winning poet.

Alice James Books, Cambridge, MA : [1988?]

Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, Conn. : ©2007.

A collection of over forty-five poems by American poet Jean Valentine.

Farrar, Straus, Giroux, New York : ©1974.

Carnegie Mellon University Press, Pittsburgh : 1995.

Wesleyan University Press ; [Middletown, Conn.] : ©2000.

"The poems ride lightly on the waves of thought, more textures than statements. The cradle of the real life is divided into two sections, the shorter first section dealing with loss and death and the longer second section, entitled 'Her lost book," which weaves memories with various metaphors for writing and deals specifically with the 'problem' of women's writing."--Cover.

Farrar, Straus, Giroux, New York : ©1979.

A. James Books, Cambridge, Mass. : ©1992.

Salmon poetry, Galway : 1995.