From Library Journal
These poems, the author's first collection in eight years, are quiet, contemplative, and reflective in a refreshingly straightforward way. Although occasionally overly sentimental, they speak to the value of everyday life and experience in a way that we can all understand. The author encompasses a wide sweep of subject--from the deep love that develops between two people who have been together for many years to the dailiness of a supermarket trip. And, while some of the poems express an almost mournful sense of regret over the things in life that didn't turn out as planned, the overall tone is of affirmation and optimism.
- Jessica Grim, Univ. of California Lib., BerkeleyCopyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Pressestimmen
"Mona Van Duyn gas a gift for making the ordinary appear strange and for turning a common situation into a metaphysical exploration . . .
Near Changes is a major addition to the corpus of her work."
--Edward Hirsch,
The New York Times"It is not only that the best of her poems teach us so much about life, but that life, over a long time, teaches us the truth of these poems."
--Howard Nemerov
"Since 1959 Mona Van Duyn has been writing poetry notable for its formal accomplishment and for its thematic ambition. The searching intelligence of the persona we have learned to know in her poems, combined with the humor, technical ease, and the blend of the abstract and the quotidian that the poet has made her own have resulted in that rare good thing: a strong clear voice, original without eccentricity."
--Cynthia Zarin,
The New Republic