Near Changes: Poems
Mona Van Duyn. Alfred A. Knopf, $14 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-679-72909-9
The 1991 Pulitzer Prize-winning collection. (Feb.)
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Reviewed on: 02/03/1992
Genre: Fiction
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