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Reviewed on August 15, 2007
Winner of the National Book Award forDoor in the Mountain (2004), Valentine is considered a poets' poet. No wonder. The poems in Valentine's 11th collection are tight, self-enclosed, camouflaged excursions into a dreamlike state of mind. Difficult in a Zen way, these poems work through vivid imagery and understatement. Their territory being the spiritu...Log In or Sign Up to Read More