Late Loving
A poem by Mona Van Duyn, published in <em>The Atlantic</em> in 1986
by Mona Van Duyn
Aug 23, 2020
1 minute
Photo illustration by Miki Lowe
Being called a “domestic poet”—a chronicler of home life, of small, private matters—never sat well with Mona, for a poet who “uses domestic metaphor to describe ideas, bizarre scientific developments, the possibility of nuclear destruction.”
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