Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry

Alan Dugan · 2001 CE · Poem · Modern / American · Contemporary

A collected volume that gathers the poet's earlier books, from the 1961 debut on, and adds new poems. Dugan's blunt, sardonic lyrics treat work, marriage, ageing and death with a bar-room directness and no consolation. Admitted as the volume that won the 2001 National Book Award; it is a collection of poetry spanning four decades, not a single narrative.

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