Mona Van Duyn is now Poet Laureate of the United States. Her most recent book, Near Changes, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for 1991. If It Be Not I collects and restores to print all of her work up to Near Changes, and includes all of the volumes that were part of Merciful Disguises (1973), as well as Letters from a Father (1982). It is published simultaneously with a new book of poems, Firefall. Reviewing Near Changes in Poetry, Alfred Corn said, "During the.