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First paperback edition. |
| Description |
ix, 305 pages ; 24 cm |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Contents |
Valentines to the Wide World 1959. Three Valentines to the Wide World. Two Poems, with Birds. The Gentle Snorer. From Yellow Lake: An Interval. Dwarf in the Woods. Insight. 3 a.m. in a War Year. Women Waiting. Nap. Paratrooper. To My Godson, on His Christening. New Land. Death by Aesthetics. A Relative and an Absolute. A Kind of Music. Toward a Definition of Marriage -- A Time of Bees 1964. Elementary Attitudes. A Serious Case. Recovery. An Essay on Criticism. Pot-au-feu. Gray's Apocrypha. Notes from a Suburban Heart. Quebec Suite. Earth Tremors Felt in Missouri. A Garland for Christopher Smart. A Sentimental Delusion. Placet Experiri. An Annual and Perennial Problem. The Gardener to His God. Sestina for Warm Seasons. Open Letter, Personal. A Time of Bees -- To See, To Take 1970. Outlandish Agon. A Christmas Card, After the Assassinations. Causes. The Wish to Be Believed. First Flight. Leda. The Creation. The Pieta, Rhenish, 14th c., The Cloisters. A Day in Late October. Advice to a God. Homework. Eros to Howard Nemerov. A Quiet Afternoon at Home. Billings and Cooings from The Berkeley Barb. Birthday Card for a Psychiatrist. Footnotes to The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell. In the Cold Kingdom. Postcards from Cape Split. A Spell of Conjunctivitis. In the Hospital for Tests. The Good Resolution. Into Mexico. Remedies, Maladies, Reasons. Open Letter from a Constant Reader. The Miser. Colorado. What I Want To Say. The Good Man. The Challenger. Relationships. To Poets' Worksheets in the Air-Conditioned Vault of a Library. The Twins. Lede Reconsidered. The Voyeur. Along the Road. Marriage, with Beasts -- Bedtime Stories 1972. So early into a big bed. An old widow lady. After midnight. Such things there are. Oh well. That was in 1875. That was in 1875. Well, that was Saturday. Well, that old big fat man. That was my grandfather. In the Old Country. Just full of springs. Ja, we had it hard. We alwus had to herd. The folks built that barn. Grandma, thank you -- Poems 1965-1973. The Fear of Flying. Peony Stalks. A Goodbye. Midas and Wife. Two Poems for Sub-Zero Times. Economics. To Record One Must Be Unwary. The Talker. West Branch Ponds, Kokadjo, Maine. The Cities of the Plain. A Small Excursion. Since You Asked Me . . . With Warm Regards to Miss Moore and Mr. Ransom. End of May. Evening Stroll in the Suburbs. What the Motorcycle Said. A View. Walking the Dog: a Diatribe -- Letters from a Father, and Other Poems 1982. Last. Letters from a Father. Lives of the Poets. Speak, Memory. Growing Up Askew. Photographs. The Stream. The Case of The. There. In the Missouri Ozarks. Moose in the Morning, Northern Maine. The Hermit of Hudson Pond. Madrid, 1974. Madrid, May, 1977. Goya's "Two Old People Eating Soup" At Pere Lachaise. Here. The Learners. Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey. Caring for Surfaces. Cinderella's Story. Saleswomen in Bakery Shops. Fall. The Vision Test. A Winter's Tale, by a Wife. A Reading of Rex Stout. First. The Ballad of Blossom. |
| Summary |
Mona Van Duyn is now Poet Laureate of the United States. Her most recent book, Near Changes, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for 1991. 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). It is published simultaneously with a new book of poems, Firefall. Reviewing Near Changes in Poetry, Alfred Corn said, "During the. |
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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, '. . . the metaphysical changes that occur, / Merely in living as and where we live.'" |
| Subject |
American poetry -- Women authors.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Van Duyn, Mona. If it be not I. 1st paperback ed. New York : Knopf, 1994 (OCoLC)645825032 |
| ISBN |
0679419020 |
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9780679419020 |
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0679752811 paperback |
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9780679752813 paperback |
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