Van Duyn, Mona

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Near Changes: Poems
Mona Van Duyn
Manufacturer: Knopf
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Yin (American Poets Continuum)
The Morning of the Poem
The Simple Truth: Poems
The Second Four Books of Poems: The Moving Target / The Lice / The Carrier of Ladders / Writings to an Unfinished Accompaniment
The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov

ASIN: 0679729097
Release Date: 1992-02-25

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Mona Van Duyn's Near Changes is a valuable addition to contemporary American poetry. This work provides a variety of riches surpassing even that of her earlier work. For wit, inventiveness, true feeling and a sharp eye for the passing scene, there is no one better than she.

If It Be Not I: Collected Poems 1959-1982

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If It Be Not I: Collected Poems 1959-1982
Mona Van Duyn
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Binding: Paperback

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Selected Poems

ASIN: 0679752811
Release Date: 1994-05-24

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These two books, published simultaneously, contain all the poetry of Mona Van Duyn, except for her Pulitzer Prize-winning Near Changes, available as a separate volume. Firefall contains the most recent work of the 1992-3 Poet Laureate of the United States.

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Firefall
Mona Van Duyn
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If It Be Not I: Collected Poems 1959-1982

ASIN: 0679752803
Release Date: 1994-06-14

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Mana Van Duyn's most recent collection is splendidly varied: witty, moving, sometimes astonishing. As Howard Nemerov said of her last book, "It is not only that the best of her poems teaches us so much about life, but that life, over a long time, teaches us the truth about these poems."

From the brief poems she calls "minimalist sonnets" to the powerful long poems "Falls" and "Delivery," both recalling incidents from childhood and youth, the work in this extraordinary book is that of a poet reaching the depths and heights of her own talent.

A companion to this one, If It Be Not I: Collected Poems 1959-1982, restores to print in one substantial book all of her work from Merciful Disguises and Letters from a Father.

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Merciful Disguises
Mona Van Duyn
Manufacturer: Holiday House
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Binding: Paperback

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To See to Take Poems
Mona Van Duyn
Manufacturer: Macmillan Pub Co
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0689103123

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Best of Mona Van Duyn

Selected Poems
Mona Van Duyn
Manufacturer: Knopf
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Binding: Paperback

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If It Be Not I: Collected Poems 1959-1982
Refusing Heaven
Lorine Niedecker: Collected Works
The Sisters Mortland
But Excuse Me That is My Book (Charlie and Lola)

ASIN: 0375709800
Release Date: 2003-11-18

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This generous selection of Mona Van Duyn’s distinguished, award-winning work spans four decades. Beginning with her classic Valentines to the Wide World (1959), encompassing the intimate voice of Bedtime Stories (1972) and the moving Letters from a Father (1982), crowned by the life-spanning Firefall (1993), Selected Poems reacquaints us with a poet whose ear is keenly tuned to the music of nature and human conversation. In lively and varied forms, from her minimalist sonnets to her magisterial longer pieces, Van Duyn captures a multiplicity of worlds within her world, in a tone inflected by both Midwestern pragmatism and a deep metaphysical intelligence. As she contemplates the act of reading in bed, a Rhenish sculpture in the Cloisters, or the loss of her mother, the poet goes beyond context to discover consciousness: an expression of the larger ideas and emotions—finally, the art—in the smallest details of our lives.

From the Hardcover edition.

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Best of Mona Van Duyn.......2005-04-18

I picked this poetry collection to read for a class I am taking. At first I dreaded this because I dislike reading poetry, however I found myself hooked. It was very interesting to see how Mona's writing changed from her first collection in 1959 to the collection written in 1993. You can see the changes in society, from society's view of being very conservative to discussing the issues of abortion and homosexuality.
I live in Missouri, so I found it easy to relate to her discription of the environment and of her garden.
Her words are beautiful and I highly recommend you read this.

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TO SEE, TO TAKE
Mona VAN DUYN
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ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000L6NEXI

Merciful Disguises; Published and Unpublished Poems.

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Merciful Disguises; Published and Unpublished Poems.
Mona Van Duyn
Manufacturer: Macmillan Pub Co
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Binding: Hardcover

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Valentines to the wide world;: Poems
Mona Van Duyn
Manufacturer: Cummington Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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POETRY Vol. CXV No. 6
Daryl, Editor (Stephen Berg, Jessica Powers, Tim Hildebrand, Martin Roth, Dugan Gilman, Laurance Wieder, Richard Shelton, Darrell Gray, Michael Benedikt, Wm. Heyen, Marvin Bell, Mona Van Duyn and Lewis Warsh) HINE
Manufacturer: Modern Poetry Association
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000IZHYZQ

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