March 9, 2010. Mona van Duyn was born in 1921 in Waterloo, Iowa, and died in 2004. Between 1974 and 1978 she and her husband edited \”Perspective: A Quarterly of Literature.\” She served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1992-1993. Letters from a Father 1 Ulcerated tooth keeps me awake, there is such pain, would have to go to the hospital to have it pulled or would bleed to death from the…