Jean Valentine.

About Jean Valentine

Jean Valentine was an American poet. Over a six-decade career, Valentine published 14 collections of poetry. She received the 2004 National Book Award for Poetry for Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003, and was a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Break the Glass. In celebrating the later, the committee of judges noted, “This is a collection in which small details can accrue great power and a reader is never sure where any poem might lead.”