Van Duyn, Mona
Van Duyn, Mona (1921 - 2004)
Index to poems
Biography
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- Earth Tremors Felt in Missouri
- Endings
- Letters from a Father
- "The Wish To Be Believed"
- A Bouquet of Zinnias
- A Garland for Christopher Smart
- A Kind of Music
- A Serious Case
- A Small Excursion
- A Time of Bees
- Advice to a God
- Birthday Card for a Psychiatrist
- Closures
- Death by Aesthetics
- Eros to Howard Nemerov
- Extra Time
- Falling in Love at Sixty-Five
- For May Swenson
- Glad Heart at the Supermarket
- Homework
- In Bed with a Book
- In the Cold Kingdom
- Insiders
- Long Stretch Minimalist Sonnet
- Mr. and Mrs. Jack Sprat in the Kitchen
- Near Changes
- Open Letter from a Constant Reader
- Open Letter, Personal
- Passing Thought
- Photographs
- Since You Asked Me...
- Sonnet for Minimalists
- The Ballad of Blossom
- The Beginning
- The Burning of Yellowstone
- The Case of The
- The Challenger
- The Creation
- The Gardener to His God
- The Gentle Snorer
- The Good Man
- The Miser
- Three Valentines to the Wide World
- To a Friend Who Threw Away Hair Dyes
- Views
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What I Want to Say
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- Ludvigson, Susan. "Mona Van Duyn". Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 5: American Poets Since World War II, First Series. A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book. Edited by Donald J. Greiner, University of South Carolina. Gale Research, 1980. pp. 334-340.
- Van Duyn, Mona. Valentines to the Wide World. New Rochelle, NY: 1959.
- --. A Time of Bees. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1964. PS3543 .A563 T5 University of Toronto Libraries at Downsview.
- --. To See, To Take. New York, NY: Atheneum, 1970. PS3543 .A563 T6 University of Toronto Libraries at Downsview.
- --. Bedtime Stories. Woodstock, NY: Ceres Press, 1972.
- --. Merciful Disguises: Poems Published and Unpublished. New York, NY: Atheneum, 1973. PS3543 .A563 M4 University of Toronto Libraries at Downsview.
- --. Letters from a Father and Other Poems. New York, NY: Atheneum, 1982. PS3543 .A563 L4 1982 Robarts Library.
- --. Near Changes. New York, NY: Knopf, 1990. PS3543 .A563 N4 1990 Robarts Library.
- --. If It Be Not I: Collected Poems 1959-1982. New York, NY: Knopf, 1992. PS3543 .A563 I4 1993 Robarts Library.
- --. Firefall. New York, NY: Knopf, 1992. PS3543 .A563 F57 1993 Robarts Library.
- --. Selected Poems. New York, NY: Knopf, 2002. PS3543 .A563 A6 2002X Robarts Library.
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Given Name
Mona
Family Name
Van Duyn
Birth Date
March 9, 1921
Death Date
December 2, 2004
Nationality
Family Relations
father : Earl George Van Duyn
mother : Lora G. Van Duyn
husband : Jarvis A. Thurston (from 31 Aug. 1943)
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