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Lucy - (Quarternote Chapbook) 8th Edition by Jean Valentine (Paperback)

Lucy - (Quarternote Chapbook) 8th Edition by  Jean Valentine (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>The eighth Quarternote Chapbook by winner of the National Book Award and PSA Shelley Memorial Prize.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><i>Lucy / your secret book / that you leaned over and wrote just in the dirt-- / Not having to have an ending / Not having to last. . . .</i></p><p>And so begins Jean Valentine's provocative new work, <i>Lucy</i>, a poem that pays homage to the three million-year-old skeleton of the earliest known hominid. With a deep sense of gratitude and profound longing, this poem celebrates the creative power of the female by introducing us to one of our oldest human ancestors. In a dreamlike and often fractured syntax that is vintage Valentine, Lucy, the "wildgood mother" of our species, can once again be heard.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Will submit for review at Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Library Journal, Rain Taxi, Poetry, The New York Times Book Review, and many literary journals with a focus on poetry<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Author of over a dozen poetry collections, Jean Valentine won the Yale Younger Poets Award for her first book in 1965, and subsequent collections have won the The PSA's Shelley Memorial Prize in 2000 and the National Book Award in 2004. She has taught at Sarah Lawrence College, NYU, Columbia, and the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan.

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