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.
Four decades of poems are gathered in this selection of work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning Van Duyn, a former United States Poet Laureate and Chancellor of the Academy of American Poetry.
Stark and sensual, energetic and intimate, That Kind of Danger explores the dangers, histories, and passions of the life of the city, the way lives are broken and rebuilt, the limits and failures of family life, the dynamics of our erotic lives.
Mona Van Duyn is now Poet Laureate of the U.S. Her most recent book, Near Changes, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in poetry in 1991. Her new collection, Firefall, is splendidly varied--witty, moving, and engaging.
If It Be Not I collects all of Mona Van Duyn's work up to Near Changes (1990). It replaces the 1973 Merciful Disguises, which it includes in its entirety, plus the 1982 Letters from a Father and Other Poems.
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