| Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry Contributor(s): Dugan, Alan (Author), Phillips, Carl (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 1583222650 ISBN-13: 9781583222652 Publisher: Seven Stories Press OUR PRICE: $31.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2001 Annotation: In this collection chronicling a 40-year career and its shifting concerns, Alan Dugan adds to his body of work with nearly three dozen new poems. Eloquent, blunt, funny, or bitter, the poet 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." |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| LCCN: 2001041089 |
| Physical Information: 1.19" H x 5.76" W x 9.38" (1.47 lbs) 448 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |