Seeing You Summary
Jean Valentine

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Seeing You Summary

Jean Valentine's “Seeing You” was first published in the 1990 January/February issue of American Poetry Review. Subsequently, the poem was included in Valentine's 1992 collection of poetry called The River at Wolf and then republished in the collection Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965- 2003 (2004).

Valentine often writes about her mother and her lovers. “Seeing You” combines these two subjects in an effort to show that the experience of getting to know...

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