Following her National Book Award-winning "Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems", 1965-2003, Jean Valentine returns with a meditative and magical new collection. In "Little Boat", Valentine continues her exploration of spiritual life, confronting the realities of aging and death in the serene and dreamlike voice so beloved by her many readers. Infusing even the most melancholy subjects with warmth and humanity, "Little Boat" explores such subjects as grief, ordinary objects, illness, and memory, carrying the reader into disparate worlds, rendering the complexity of our common experience through startling images.