Selected Poems
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- Synopsis
- This generous selection of Mona Van Duyn’s distinguished, award-winning work spans four decades. Beginning with her classicValentines to the Wide World(1959), encompassing the intimate voice ofBedtime Stories(1972) and the movingLetters from a Father(1982), crowned by the life-spanningFirefall(1993),Selected Poemsreacquaints 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.
- Copyright:
- 2002
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9780307545572
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780375709807, 9780375413698
- Publisher:
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Date of Addition:
- 12/05/10
- Copyrighted By:
- Mona Van Duyn
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Poetry, Literature and Fiction
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.