Alan Dugan - Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry

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Key Features:	Release Date: November 01, 2001

This is the only collection of Dugan's poetry in print, chronicling a 40-year career and its shifting concerns. Here Alan Dugan adds to his body of work with nearly three dozen new poems. Eloquent, blunt, funny, or bitter, the poet, winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the Prix de Rome, comments on every facet of life. As Stanley Plumly noted when presenting the 2001 National Book Award for Poems Seven: ?[Dugan?s] crucial honesty ? as much as his resolute art ? is irresistible.? Minimize

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Authors	Alan Dugan
Nonfiction Category	Poetry
Nonfiction Subcategory	Not available
Awards	2001 National Book Award
Professional Reviews
Professional Reviews	*Pinsky, Robert, New York Times Book Review:* "Among other things Dugan is -- as if in passing -- a true antiwar poet, without easy postures or wetness...As a love poet, too, Dugan writes counter to the conventions...Though Dugan might hate the word, the teller of these awkward or unpleasant truths has a role that could be called sacred, as well as unwelcome. Where our appetite may be for something heroic, elevating or hedonistic, he is more likely to present us with something like a bill. He chooses to make the last poem in this volume a flattened parable called 'Closing Time at the Second Avenue Deli.'The material is the opposite of heroic, almost insolently so: a leaky container of leftover lamb stew in a cab. In a tour de force, the poet brings his ferocious, analytical mode to an extreme of the quotidian....Dugan's remarkable achievement is to see into mean or mundane materials with all the profundity and force of poetry."
Book Editions
Book Editions	Hardcover422November 01, 2001Seven Stories Pr10"(h) x 6.5"(w) x 1.25"(d), 1.45 lbs.9781583222652

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