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<p><P>New poems from a National Book Award winner</p><h3>Publishers Weekly</h3><p><I>Reviewed by</I> Matthea Harvey</P><P>In <I>Little Boat</I>, her 11th collection, 2004 National Book Award-winner Jean Valentine continues her delicate lyric investigations. Her minimalist, elided style is like the quiet concentration of a bank robber trying to crack a safe. Doors spring open throughout this book, usually where we least expect them: "I sit underneath the cottonwoods-/Friends,/ what am I meant to be doing?/ Nothing. The door is fallen down/ inside my open body/ where all the worlds touch."</P><P>In "The Eleventh Brother" (a poem based on the Hans Christian Andersen fairytale "The Wild Swans"), Valentine focuses on a princess who, in order to change her brothers from swans back into princes, must weave 11 coats made out of nettles, and all the while, remain mute. Valentine is, after all, a poet who seeks insight and metamorphosis, but will wait for it patiently: "your sister had finished weaving your other arm,/ she dove down to give it to you// through the gray water. You couldn't/ take it. You wouldn't." That ending-the noncomittal swing door of "either/or" is characteristic of Vale

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Author

Valentine, Jean

Publisher

Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780819568502

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, Humor

Rating

4.25 / 5 (122 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14