Mona Van Duyn

Mona Van Duyn is a distinguished writer whose honors include a Bollingen Prize, a National Book Award, and a term as the United States's official poet laureate. "She is a poet of great wisdom, skill, and versatility," affirmed a contributor to Virginia Quarterly Review. Elizabeth Frank, meanwhile, described Van Duyn in a Nation appraisal as "a poet who usually tries harder than any of her contemporaries to coax affirmation out of the waste and exhaustion of modern life.