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Selected Poems.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Van Duyn, Mona
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--20th century.
- American poetry.
- Women poets, American.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2002.
- Summary:
- 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.
- 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 Christmas 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. Bedtime Stories
- 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".
- Notes:
- Preliminaries omitted.
- ISBN:
- 0-307-54557-1
- OCLC:
- 842857301
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