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Merciful Disguises

poetry by Van Duyn

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  • Mona Van Duyn
    In Mona Van Duyn

    …A Time of Bees (1964), Merciful Disguises (1973), and Near Changes (1990), for which she was awarded the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for poetry. Firefall and If It Be Not I: Collected Poems 1959–1982 were published in 1993. From 1992 to 1993 Van Duyn served as poet laureate of the United…

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