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Selected Poems of Mona Van Duyn

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Availability:In StockContributor:Mona Van DuynPublish date:2003-11-18Pages:240
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780375709807ISBN-10:375709800UPC:9780375709807Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, Women Authors, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:Animals & NatureSize:9.36 x 6.20 x 0.72 inchesWeight:0.8311Product ID:SC0QRPNX2J
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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780375709807ISBN-10:375709800UPC:9780375709807Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, Women Authors, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:Animals & NatureSize:9.36 x 6.20 x 0.72 inchesWeight:0.8311Product ID:SC0QRPNX2J
Mona Van Duyn was born in Waterloo, Iowa, in 1921 and currently lives in St. Louis. She has taught widely, both in the United States and abroad, and has received many awards for her poetry, including the National Book Award, the Bollingen Prize, and the Pulitzer Prize. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters as well as the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and was for fifteen years a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. She was Poet Laureate of the United States for 1992-1993.
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group

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