Mona Van Duyn's Near Changes is a valuable addition to contemporary American poetry. This work provides a variety of riches surpassing even ...
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Sep 26, 2011
Readers of MERCIFUL DISGUISES: PUBLISHED AND UNPUBLISHED POEMS (1959-1973) and LETTERS FROM A FATHER (1982), already knew Van Duyn to be one of the eminent women writers of her generation. NEAR CHANGES, the Pulitzer-winning collection which followed, typifies Van Duyn's work: pleasant, witty, and occasional poems primarily in the traditional forms that predominate. Thus she served as a sort of godmother for many younger neo-formalist poets, particularly Molly Peacock and Mary Jo Salter, whose a
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Feb 14, 2009
SmarterLilac
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Some of Van Duyn is totally inscrutable to me, but I like this book.
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