Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry

by Alan Dugan

Book Overview

Now in paperback for everyone to enjoy, this winner of the 2001 National Book Award presents the life work of one of America's finest poets. [These poems'] magic derives from Dugan's ability to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1583222650
• ISBN13: 9781583222652
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: Seven Stories Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.8" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

A Truly Great American Poet

Alan Dugan is one of the greatest poets writing in America. He is the perfect antidote to the romantic, overblown, overwritten, snobby, too-cool-for-you poetry that drives me nuts. His poetry is honest, tough, controversial, critical, well-crafted, and powerful. Poems Seven is not to be missed.

where has Dugan been all my life?

I read a lot of poetry. Somehow I had completely missed Alan Dugan. Then, thankfully, the National Book Awards judges picked Poems 7 for the 2001 award. It's an extraordinary book; Dugan is an extraordinary poet. He should have won the Pulitzer, too, but he may just be too left-wing and energetic and raucous and funny for the Pulitzer. He's also dead serious, and makes a whole lot of other poets writing today look like dilettantes, dandies, stuffed shirts, lightweights and poseurs. These are mostly short, narrative, clear, yet also distinctly, and importantly, strange poems. They're working-class, brainy, rebellious, delightful. Buy this book!

Master Poet

Alan Dugan's poetry is wonderfully crisp. He writes poetry with the seriousness it deserves while also displaying a comical side. His depth of intelligence is matched by no other living poet. Buy this volume and be amazed. If you aren't amazed then you should try reading it again.

Rare & perfect stuff!

Forget the dismal frightened little p-c conformists whose fears have annihilated their sensibilities & whose greatest thrill in life is trashing brilliant iconoclastic talent. This is first rate stuff, cerebral & visceral & on target at all times. This is Poetry!

Alan Dugan, a career in brief.

Alan Dugan, first published in the early sixties, has always been a rebel. His work is easily recognized, dense and irreverant. He has maintained a style throughout the years that is unmistakable. If you want to produce modern poetry, do yourself a favor and read Alan Dugan.