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| | Photo binbook: "Van Duyn, Mona" |
 | | Reviewing Near Changes in Poetry, Alfred Corn said, "During the past several decades Mona Van Duyn has assembled, in a language at once beautiful and exact, one of the most convincing bodies of work in our poetry, a poetry that explores, as Stevens put it, '. |
 | | If It Be Not I collects and restores to print all of her work up to Near Changes, and includes all of the volumes that were part of Merciful Disguises (1973), as well as Letters from a Father (1982). |
 | | Ave Maria.'' The appeal of this fine first collection, winner of the 1993 Barnard New Women's Poets Prize, is its intense clarity of language, which, like the city that inspired many of its poems, is gritty, complex, and always in motion. |
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