Draw the Black Straw: On Jean Valentine’s “Light Me Down”
Elizabeth Metzger reviews Jean Valentine’s “Light Me Down: The New & Collected Poems of Jean Valentine.”
Elizabeth Metzger is the author of Lying In (2023), as well as The Spirit Papers (2017), winner of the Juniper Prize for Poetry, and the chapbook Bed (2021). Her poems have been published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Poetry, American Poetry Review, The Nation, and Poem-a-Day. Her essays have been published in Boston Review, Guernica, Conjunctions, PN Review, and Literary Hub, among others. She is a poetry editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books and lives in California.
Elizabeth Metzger reviews Jean Valentine’s “Light Me Down: The New & Collected Poems of Jean Valentine.”
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