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Rosemary Griggs: Saint Valentine and a Preserved Poetry Archive Record

Rosemary Griggs is represented in the historical poetry archive by Saint Valentine, an entry preserved in the eleventh installment. The surviving record confirms the author’s full name, the title exactly as published, and the work’s position in the archive’s chronology. These details establish a reliable publication trace and provide the documentary foundation for this profile.

Saint Valentine in the archive

Saint Valentine survives as a title-level record. Its two-word construction joins an honorific with a proper name, creating a compact title whose form is immediately legible even without the poem body. The archive supplies no surviving lines, stanza pattern, meter, narrative, or imagery from the work. The title therefore remains the complete textual evidence available here for the poem itself.

The eleventh installment fixes the work within a specific publication sequence. That chronological placement allows readers to situate Griggs among the other contributors preserved around the same period. In a wider survey of poetry, the entry offers a precise point of reference: an identified author, an exact title, and a confirmed installment.

The title as surviving evidence

The wording Saint Valentine has clear formal properties that can be described safely from the record. It contains two capitalized words and presents a proper-name phrase without subtitle or punctuation. That concise form gives cataloguers and researchers a stable identifier for comparison with external bibliographies, personal archives, or future recoveries of the complete poem.

Partial records play an important role in the history of modern poetry. A missing body limits interpretation while leaving attribution and chronology intact. Rosemary Griggs’s entry preserves exactly those durable coordinates. Any future textual discovery can be checked against the author name, the title form, and the eleventh installment recorded here.

Rosemary Griggs in sequence

The appearance of Rosemary Griggs contributes one documented author-work pairing to the archive’s record of contemporary poets. The entry gains historical usefulness from its precision. It identifies who was credited, what title appeared, and where that appearance belongs in the sequence of installments.

The surviving material supports no reconstruction of the poem’s internal design. Discussion of rhyme, lineation, stanza structure, voice, setting, or subject would exceed the evidence. For readers interested in poetic forms, this page therefore serves as a clean bibliographic boundary: the work is attested, its title is preserved, and its formal body remains unavailable in the current archive.

A stable publication trace

Archives of experimental poetry and other contemporary writing frequently survive in uneven states, with some works preserved in full and others retained through titles, credits, and publication placement. Rosemary Griggs’s Saint Valentine belongs to the latter category. Its record remains valuable because the surviving facts are exact.

The confirmed evidence can be stated simply: Rosemary Griggs is the credited author of Saint Valentine, and the work appears in the eleventh installment. Those facts preserve the poem’s identity within the archive and provide a stable foundation for future scholarship, citation, and recovery work.