Firefall

by Mona van Duyn

Book Overview

Mana Van Duyn's most recent collection is splendidly varied: witty, moving, sometimes astonishing. As Howard Nemerov said of her last book, "It is not only that the best of her poems teaches us so much about life, but that life, over a long time, teaches us the truth about these poems." From the brief poems she calls "minimalist sonnets" to the powerful long poems "Falls" and "Delivery," both recalling incidents from childhood and youth, the work...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0679418970
• ISBN13: 9780679418979
• Release Date: December 1992
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Length: 83 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.5" x 9.6"