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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Van Duyn, Mona. Selected poems. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2002 (OCoLC)606787362 |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Mona Van Duyn |
| ISBN: | 0375413693 9780375413698 0375709800 9780375709807 |
| OCLC Number: | 48544729 |
| Description: | viii, 218 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Valentines to the Wide World, 1959. Three valentines to the wide world -- The Gentle snorer -- Woman waiting -- Death by aesthetics -- A relative and an absolute -- A kind of music -- Toward a definition of marriage -- A Time of Bees, 1964. Elementary attitudes -- Recovery -- Pot-au-Feu -- Notes from a suburban heart -- Quebec Suite -- Earth tremors felt in Missouri -- A garland for Christopher Smart -- The Gardener to his God -- Sestina for warm seasons -- Open letter, Personal -- An Annual and Perennial problem -- To See, to Take, 1970. A Cristmas card, after the assassinations -- Causes -- Leda -- The Creation -- The Pieta, Rhenish, 14th C., the Cloisters -- Advice to a God -- Billings and cooings from the Berkeley Barb (Want-Ad Section) -- Footnotes to The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell -- Postcards from Cape Split -- In the hospital for tests -- Remedies, maladies, reasons -- Open letter from a Constant Reader -- The Miser -- Relationships -- The Twins -- Leda reconsidered -- Bedtime Stories, 1972. Three -- Four -- Five -- Six -- Seven -- Nine -- Twelve -- New Poems from Merciful Disguises, 1973. Peony stalks -- Midas and wife -- Economics -- The Talker -- The Cities of the plain -- A small excursion -- End of May -- What the motorcycle said -- A view -- Letters from a Father, and Other Poems, 1982. Lives of the poets -- Growing up askew -- Photographs -- The Stream -- In the Missouri Ozarks -- Moose in the morning, Northern Maine -- The Learners -- Caring for surfaces -- The Vision test -- The Ballad of Blossom -- Near Changes, 1990. -- Birthstones -- Late loving -- Views -- Pigeon eggs -- In bed with a book -- To a friend who threw away hair dyes -- Gardens -- The Insight lady of St. Louis on zoos -- The Block -- Memoir -- Headlines -- Double Sonnet for Minimalists -- Sonnet for Minimalists -- Firefall, 1993. Addendum to "The Block" -- The Marriage sculptor -- Poets in late winter -- Rascasse -- "We are in your area" -- Endings -- For May Swenson -- Mr. and Mrs. Jack Sprat in the kitchen -- Late wishes -- Insiders -- Long stretch -- The Beginning -- Miranda grows up -- Closures -- Falls -- The Delivery -- Notes to "Firefall". |
| Other Titles: | Poems. |
| Responsibility: | Mona Van Duyn. |
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Abstract:
This selection of the author's 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, she 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. She was the U.S. poet laureate, 1992-1993.
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