"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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Sarabande Books
Published: 01/01/2009
ISBN: 9781932511680
Pages: 32
Weight: 0.08lbs
Size: 8.75h x 5.80w x 0.20d