Reviews for Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003

The average rating for Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003 based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2008-02-20 00:00:00 Jerry Dixon Ahhhhhh. Everybody, all at once, with me: ahhhhhh. What a pleasure it is to read poems that don't want anything but to be honest. What a releif.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-08-19 00:00:00 Nicholas Giambra A good rule of thumb for Valentine seems to be length: if the poem is less than about a dozen lines, there's a good chance it will be really sharp and fine and memorable. If it's longer, not much hope. She is an unusual poet who developed and developed and got better and better. If one looks at only the "new poems" in this collection, and the poems from the last book that preceded it, then the collection is quite strong. But the early books are too much of their time, too much standard issue. There are good poems scattered in the earlier books, but most of the poems are much too long and talky and "explicable". The less Valentine "means," the better she is.