Background
Duyn, Mona Jane Van was born on May 9, 1921 in Waterloo, Iowa, United States. Daughter of Earl George and Lora G. (Kramer) Van Duyn.
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Mona Van Duyn's Near Changes is a valuable addition to contemporary American poetry. This work provides a variety of riches surpassing even that of her earlier work. For wit, inventiveness, true feeling and a sharp eye for the passing scene, there is no one better than she. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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These two books, published simultaneously, contain all the poetry of Mona Van Duyn, except for her Pulitzer Prize-winning Near Changes, available as a separate volume. Firefall contains the most recent work of the 1992-3 Poet Laureate of the United States. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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(Mana Van Duyn's most recent collection is splendidly vari...)
Mana Van Duyn's most recent collection is splendidly varied: witty, moving, sometimes astonishing. As Howard Nemerov said of her last book, "It is not only that the best of her poems teaches us so much about life, but that life, over a long time, teaches us the truth about these poems." From the brief poems she calls "minimalist sonnets" to the powerful long poems "Falls" and "Delivery," both recalling incidents from childhood and youth, the work in this extraordinary book is that of a poet reaching the depths and heights of her own talent. A companion to this one, If It Be Not I: Collected Poems 1959-1982, restores to print in one substantial book all of her work from Merciful Disguises and Letters from a Father. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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The twenty-five poems included in this collection present a poet mature in both craft and perception and possessed of a fine capacity for being both lyric and analytic at the same time. There is no posturing, but always a position, both thought and felt. Originally published in 1964. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
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Duyn, Mona Jane Van was born on May 9, 1921 in Waterloo, Iowa, United States. Daughter of Earl George and Lora G. (Kramer) Van Duyn.
Bachelor, University Northern Iowa, 1942. Master of Arts, University Iowa, 1943. Doctor of Literature (honorary), Washington University, St. Louis, 1971.
Doctor of Literature (honorary), Cornell College, Iowa, 1972. Doctor of Literature (honorary), University Northern Iowa, 1991. Doctor of Literature (honorary), University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee, 1993.
Doctor of Literature (honorary), George Washington University, 1993. Doctor of Humane Letters, Georgetown University, 1993.
Instructor in English University Iowa, Iowa City, 1943-1946. Instructor in English University Louisville, 1946-1950. Lecturer English University College, Washington University, 1950-1967.
Poetry editor, co-public Perspective, A Quarterly of Literature, 1947-1967. Lecturer Salzburg (Austria) Seminar American Studies, 1973. Adjunct professor poetry workshop Washington University, Spring 1983.
Visiting Hurst professor, 1987. Poet-in-residence Sewanee Writers Conference, 1990, Breadloaf Writing Conference, Massachusetts, 1974.
(The twenty-five poems included in this collection present...)
(These two books, published simultaneously, contain all th...)
(Mana Van Duyn's most recent collection is splendidly vari...)
(Mona Van Duyn's Near Changes is a valuable addition to co...)
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Fellow Academy American Poets (chancellor 1985-1999). Member NAAS, National Academy Arts and Letters (Loines prize 1976), Academy Arts Sciences.
Married Jarvis A. Thurston, August 31, 1943.