Lucy: A Poem
Lucy / your secret book / that you leaned over and wrote just in the dirt— / Not having to have an ending / Not having to last... .
And so begins Jean Valentine’s provocative new work, Lucy, a poem that pays homage to the three million-year-old skeleton of the earliest known hominid. With a deep sense of gratitude and profound longing, this poem celebrates the creative power of the female by introducing us to one of our oldest human ancestors. In a dreamlike and often fractured syntax that is vintage Valentine, Lucy, the “wildgood mother” of our species, can once again be heard.
- Author
- Jean Valentine
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 32
- Publisher
- Sarabande Books
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9781932511680
- Genres
- poetry
- Release date
- 2009
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