Jean Valentine

[3] She received a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Master of Arts degree from Radcliffe College of Harvard University, and lived most of her life in New York City, where she died on December 29, 2020.Before that, Break the Glass, published in 2010, was a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.Valentine was one of five poets, including Charles Wright, Russell Edson, James Tate and Louise Glück, whose work Lee Upton considered critically in The Muse of Abandonment: Origin, Identity, Mastery in Five American Poets (Bucknell University Press, 1998).[8] She held residencies from Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony,[9] Ucross, and the Lannan foundation,[10] among others.[14] She was married to the late American historian James Chace from 1957 to 1968, and they are survived by two daughters, Sarah and Rebecca.
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