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.This book title, Selected Poems of Mona Van Duyn - 9780375709807, ISBN: 9780375709807, by Mona Van Duyn, published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group (November 18, 2003) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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