Jean Valentine: 8 books

"Jean Valentine has a gift for tough strangeness, but also a dreamlike syntax and manner of arranging the lines of . . . short poems so as to draw us into the doubleness and fluency of feelings."-The New York Times Book Review Quietly marked by elegy and memory, National Book Award...

"As elliptical and demanding as Emily Dickinson, Valentine consistently rewards the reader."-Library JournalIn 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....

"Jean Valentine has written a visionary book. If it is built with the brick and wood of this world, the light that pours through its windows is searing, healing."—Marie Howe

Waveform celebrates the role of women essayists in contemporary literature. Historically, women have been instrumental in moving the essay to center stage, and Waveform continues this rich tradition, further expanding the dynamic genre’s boundaries and testing its edges. With thirty essays by thirty...

À quoi ressembleront les couples de demain ? La romance a-t-elle encore un avenir ? Monde de haine ou d’illusions, réseaux sociaux omniprésents, androïdes à caractéristiques humaines, transferts de corps, voyages dans l’espace, amours interdits, couples prédéfinis... Autant...

The Women, Gender and Development Reader II is the definitive volume of literature dedicated to women in the development process. Now in a fully revised second edition, the editors expertly present the impacts of social, political and economic change by reviewing such topical issues as migration,...

Seattle was a very different city in 1960 than it is today. There were no black bus drivers, sales clerks, or bank tellers. Black children rarely attended the same schools as white children. And few black people lived outside of the Central District. In 1960, Seattle was effectively a segregated town. Energized...

Si le mythe du loup-garou est l’un des plus classiques et tenaces de la culture populaire, ce n’est pas un hasard : ces créatures n’amusaient pas du tout nos ancêtres, qui jugèrent et brûlèrent environ 100 000 personnes pour « lycanthropie » entre 1500 et 1700. 15 auteurs vous...