Jean Valentine
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Brief bio:

Jean Valentine won the Yale Younger Poets Award for her first book, Dream Barker, in 1965. Her tenth and most recent book of poetry is Little Boat (Wesleyan, 2007). Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems 1965–2003 was the winner of the 2004 National Book Award for Poetry. Her new collection, Break the Glass, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press in 2010.

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