{"product_id":"break-the-glass","title":"Break the Glass","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"As elliptical and demanding as Emily Dickinson, Valentine consistently rewards the reader.\"--\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn her eleventh collection--honored as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in poetry--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. As Adrienne Rich has said of Valentine's work, \"This is a poetry of the highest order, because it lets us into spaces and meanings we couldn't approach in any other way.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \"If a Person Visits Someone in a Dream, in Some Cultures the Dreamer Thanks Them\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAt a hotel in another star. The rooms were cold and\u003cbr\u003edamp, we were both at the desk at midnight asking if\u003cbr\u003ethey had any heaters. They had one heater. You are\u003cbr\u003eill, please you take it. Thank you for visiting my dream.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e*\u003cbr\u003eCan you breathe all right?\u003cbr\u003eBreak the glass shout\u003cbr\u003ebreak the glass force the room\u003cbr\u003ebreak the thread Open\u003cbr\u003ethe music behind the glass . . . \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJean Valentine\u003c\/b\u003e, a former State Poet of New York, earned a National Book Award, the Wallace Stevens Award, and the Shelley Memorial Prize. She has taught at Sarah Lawrence, New York University, and Columbia University. She lives in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 1556593945\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9781556593949\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Valentine, Jean\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Copper Canyon Press\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Jun 2012)","offer_id":46081211891909,"sku":"9781556593949","price":14.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9781556593949.jpg?v=1776043999","url":"https:\/\/www.inveni.store\/products\/break-the-glass","provider":"Inveni","version":"1.0","type":"link"}