Collected poems

Politics & Social Sciences

DUGAN, Alan

Politics & Government

Yale University Press

Collected Poems

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

YALE UNIV PRESS @

Comprised of ironic, unsentimental poems on subjects of everyday life, Poems is the 57th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets. The first of seven books of poetry published during Dugan’s lifetime, Poems examines the unusual details of everyday subjects, including waterfalls, house plants, love, war, religion, and the Irish. Explorations inevitably arouse feelings of alienation, defeat, despair, and disenchantment. The poems are also marked by casual humor, mockery, and satire, which produce some of its strongest effects. The tone and style on display in this first book characterize all of Dugan’s subsequent poetry.

Poems (Yale Series of Younger Poets)

Poems 4

Little,Brown

"Here we go." I thought. "Dugan. He won the Pulitzer. This gotta be some good, right?" Well, kinda right. Dugan is a mix of concrete and language, without ever actually getting into the typological gymnastics of either; dada without slipping into nonsense. When he's firing on all cylinders, he's witty, surprising, germane; when he misses, he misses wide. Proceeding sidewise by inattention I arrive unknowingly at an unsought destination and pass it by wondering: what next? That complete poem ("Passing Through the Banford Tolls") is simply delicious. Dugan makes getting lost into an art form, but allows it little enough space that it's not a big deal. A good number of poets past and present could take a tip about the latter half of that statement. A book full of poems like this would have made it into the year's top 15 without a problem; as it stands, there's enough brilliance here that I'm going to be looking for Dugan's other three books published before this one (bet you can guess their titles) to see if there's one that's all pearls and no swine. ** 1/2

Little. Brown and Company

Volume 57 of the Yale Seried of Younger Poets, eduted by Dudley Fitts, AMS Press, New York, Yale University Press in New Haven CT, Foreward by Dudley Fitts, 60 pages.

Poems of Alan Dugan

Ams Pr Inc

FABER

Poems deal with mortality, life, war, men and women, mythology, and the imagination

Poems Six (American Poetry Series)

Ecco Pr

Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry, the winner of the National Book Award, presents the life work of a giant of American letters, tracks a forty-year career of honest, tough artistry, and shows a man at nearly 80 years of age and still at the height of his poetic power. Dugan’s new poems continue his career-long concerns with renewed vigor: the poet’s insistence that art is a grounded practice threatened by pretension, the wry wit, the jibes at the academic and sententious, and the arresting observations on the quotidian battles of life. All the while he peppers his poems with humorous images of the grim and daunting topics of existential emptiness.

Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry

History & Criticism

Seven Stories Press

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