ALSO BY JEAN VALENTINE
The Lighthouse Keeper, Essays on the Poetry of Eleanor Ross Taylor, editor
WESLEYAN POETRY
DOOR in the
MOUNTAIN
New and Collected Poems, 1965–2003
J E A N V A L E N T I N E
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY PRESS • MIDDLETOWN, CONNECTICUT
for Pesha & Rebeccawith love
Published by Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT 06459
This collection © 2004 by Jean Valentine
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Valentine, Jean.
Door in the mountain: new and collected poems, 1965-2003 / Jean Valentine.
p. cm.—(Wesleyan poetry)
Includes indexes.
ISBN 0-8195-6712-4 (cloth: alk. paper)
I. Title. II. Series.
PS3572.A39D66 2004
2004016019
8II'.54—dc22
Contents
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The Hawthorn Robin Mends with Thorns
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The little, faintly blue clay eggs
The Growing Christ of Tzintzuntzan
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