Little Boat
Jean Valentine

Wesleyan University Press
distributed by University Press of New England

Table of Contents

• La Chalupa, the Boat
• For her
• The Artist in Prison
• In Memory
• But your touch
• The Poet
• Photographs at her Wake
• Mattress on the floor:
• Lord of the world!
• The door is fallen down
• Door
• The father was a carrier
• Gray
• Once I was girls and boys
• The Eleventh Brother (2)
• “Remote Objects of Intense Devotion”
• The first thing
• That I had treated you badly
• Day & Night
• All around the outside
• JESUS SAID
• The Woman’s Poem
• Annunciation Poem
• The Poet’s Poem
• The Teacher’s Poem
• Death Poem
• The Afterlife Poem
• STRANGE LIGHTS
• Hospital: far from home
• Hospital: At last
• Hospital: strange lights
• Hospital: It was euphoria
• Hospital: Scraps
• A BOWL OF MILK
• The Look
• I wanted to be sure to reach you
• When she told me
• This Side
• His White Jade Eggs
• I was lying there
• The Harrowing
• FROM THE QUESTIONS OF BHANU KAPIL
• Where did you come from/how did you arrive?
• What is the shape of your body?
• What do you remember about the earth?
• What are the consequences of silence?
• How will you/have you prepare(d) for you death?
• MARIA GRAVIDA, MARY EXPECTANT
• Maria Gravida
• Eye of water
• Moose and calf
• To my soul (2)
• The Rose • Notes • Acknowledgments




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