Jean Valentine (1934–2020) published numerous poetry collections, including Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems 1965–2003, awarded the 2004 National Book Award for Poetry; Break the Glass; and Shirt in Heaven. The recipient as well of the Wallace Stevens Award and the Shelley Memorial Award, she taught at Sarah Lawrence College, New York University, and Columbia.

Photograph by Max Greenstreet.

As with Rosy Steps the Morn

by Jean Valentine
in memory of Lorraine Hunt Lieberson


Everyone
on the other side of the earth
standing upside down, listening,
Everyone on the reverse of the picture
on the other side of the measuring eye

People on couch
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