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Jean Valentine

The author of many collections of poetry, Jean Valentine has received such honors as the National Book Award, being selected for the Yale Series of Younger Poets and the Wallace Stevens Award...
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	FURTHER READING


		Poems About Friendship
		After the Movie by Marie Howe

		Blue Is Beautiful Amy but the Story Is So the '90s by Farrah Field

		Book Loaned to Tom Andrews by Bobby C. Rogers

		Dear Friends by Edwin Arlington Robinson

		For N & K by Gina Myers

		From the Lives of My Friends by Michael Dickman

		Heaven for Helen by Mark Doty

		Heaven for Stanley by Mark Doty

		How I Am by Jason Shinder

		Mending Wall by Robert Frost

		On Gifts For Grace by Bernadette Mayer

		sisters by Lucille Clifton

		Skunk Hour by Robert Lowell

		Song of Myself, X by Walt Whitman

		Stanzas in Meditation by Gertrude Stein

		The Armadillo by Elizabeth Bishop

		The Soul unto itself (683) by Emily Dickinson

		This Lime Tree Bower My Prison by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

		To a Friend who sent me some Roses by John Keats

		To Thomas Moore by George Gordon Byron

		Travelling by William Wordsworth

		We Have Been Friends Together by Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton

		You & I Belong in This Kitchen by Juan Felipe Herrera

		Your Catfish Friend by Richard Brautigan

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by Jean Valentine

Friend I need your hand every morning but anger and beauty and hope these roses make one rose. Friend I need a hand every evening but anger and hope and beauty are three roses that make one rose. Let's fix our bed it's in splinters and I want to stay all year. Let's fix our bed it's in splinters and I want to stay all year. Did you hear what that woman on Grafton Street was saying? You won't be killed today. We don't even know we're born.

From Door in the Mountain. Copyright © 2004 by Jean Valentine. Reprinted with permission of Wesleyan University Press.

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