Most readers will agree that Jean Valentine's poetry is challenging but many also find it powerful and emotionally affecting. Your blog post this week should address some aspect of Jean Valentine's poems. Your focus should be on the selection from The Cradle of the Real Life or those in the "New Poems" section.
Here are some questions and topics you might consider:
How the poems depict and think about the body.
How they construct or think about female experience.
How Valentine uses animals and animal imagery.
The role that human suffering (illness, loss, loneliness) plays in the poems.
How the poems represent the relationship between the speaking "I" of the poem and the "you" she addresses.
You could also write reflectively about the experience of reading the poems.
Remember that you'll want to develop and support your claims, thinking of your readers.
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