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Poet Van Duyn recently passed away. A former US poet laureate, winner of a Pulitzer Prize, and recipient of n umerous grants and awards, she has been hailed as one of our greatest modern poets. This is one of the few critical books on her life and work. To help broaden and uniquely inform our understanding of her work, editor Michael Burns has gathered ten essays, a poem, a succinct biographical sketch, and Van Duyn's own laureate address to the Library of Congress. Filled with keen prose by distinguished poets and critics (Maxine Kumin, Carolyn Kizer, etc.), this collection is not only a resounding tribute to one poet's body of work, but also a pulse-taking of the literary scene surounding her poetry.

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