Lucy: A Poem

By Jean Valentine

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1932511687
• ISBN13: 9781932511680
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Sarabande Books
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.8" x 8.8"