Author: Michael Burns
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 9781610751278
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Mona van Dyun is a former U.S. poet laureate (1992) and winner of a Pulitzer Prize (1991). To help broaden and inform our understanding of her work, the editor of this volume has gathered together ten essays, a poem, and a biographical sketch, as well as the author's own laureate address to the Library of Congress. The first section of this collection include tributes by other poets that elucidate the special effect Van Duyn's poetry has had on their work and thought, as well as a poem that extols the qualities of her poems and places those qualities within her contempoarary scene. The second section contains eight essays exploring aspects as varied as Van Duyn's penchant for particularity, her remarkable ability to rediscover for us the strangeness of everyday living, and her elegant style, fluid in both free verse and form. The final section opens with Van Duyn's overview of the state of poetry in America at the close of the twentieth century, and a short narrative history of her literary career.
Discovery & Reminiscence: Essays on the Poetry on Mona Van Duyn (p)
Author: Michael Burns
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 9781610751278
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Mona van Dyun is a former U.S. poet laureate (1992) and winner of a Pulitzer Prize (1991). To help broaden and inform our understanding of her work, the editor of this volume has gathered together ten essays, a poem, and a biographical sketch, as well as the author's own laureate address to the Library of Congress. The first section of this collection include tributes by other poets that elucidate the special effect Van Duyn's poetry has had on their work and thought, as well as a poem that extols the qualities of her poems and places those qualities within her contempoarary scene. The second section contains eight essays exploring aspects as varied as Van Duyn's penchant for particularity, her remarkable ability to rediscover for us the strangeness of everyday living, and her elegant style, fluid in both free verse and form. The final section opens with Van Duyn's overview of the state of poetry in America at the close of the twentieth century, and a short narrative history of her literary career.
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 9781610751278
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Mona van Dyun is a former U.S. poet laureate (1992) and winner of a Pulitzer Prize (1991). To help broaden and inform our understanding of her work, the editor of this volume has gathered together ten essays, a poem, and a biographical sketch, as well as the author's own laureate address to the Library of Congress. The first section of this collection include tributes by other poets that elucidate the special effect Van Duyn's poetry has had on their work and thought, as well as a poem that extols the qualities of her poems and places those qualities within her contempoarary scene. The second section contains eight essays exploring aspects as varied as Van Duyn's penchant for particularity, her remarkable ability to rediscover for us the strangeness of everyday living, and her elegant style, fluid in both free verse and form. The final section opens with Van Duyn's overview of the state of poetry in America at the close of the twentieth century, and a short narrative history of her literary career.
Discovery and Reminiscence
Author: Michael Burns
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781557284747
Category : Women and literature
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781557284747
Category : Women and literature
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
It Will be All Right in the Morning (p)
Author: Michael Burns
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 9781610752091
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 9781610752091
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Concise Major 21st-Century Writers
Author: Tracey L. Matthews
Publisher: Gale Cengage
ISBN: 9780787675448
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 758
Book Description
Presents alphabetized profiles of approximately seven hundred authors commonly studied in high school and college English courses, describing their lives and careers, listing their works, and providing mailing addresses.
Publisher: Gale Cengage
ISBN: 9780787675448
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 758
Book Description
Presents alphabetized profiles of approximately seven hundred authors commonly studied in high school and college English courses, describing their lives and careers, listing their works, and providing mailing addresses.
Instructors Manual
Author: Addison-Wesley Longman, Limited
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780321107763
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780321107763
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
International Bibliography of Book Reviews of Scholarly Literature Chiefly in the Fields of Arts and Humanities and the Social Sciences
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 906
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 906
Book Description
Contemporary Authors
Author: Terrie M. Rooney
Publisher: Contemporary Authors
ISBN: 9780787645861
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Your students and users will find biographical information on approximately 300 modern writers in this volume of Contemporary Authors(R).
Publisher: Contemporary Authors
ISBN: 9780787645861
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Your students and users will find biographical information on approximately 300 modern writers in this volume of Contemporary Authors(R).
American Book Publishing Record
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1222
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1222
Book Description
If it be Not I
Author: Mona Van Duyn
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
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.
New Books on Women and Feminism
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Feminism
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Feminism
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description