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Poems

  • Alan Dugan
  • Preface by: Dudley Fitts
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2019

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Comprised of ironic, unsentimental poems on subjects of everyday life, Poems is the 57th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets.

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Dugan Alan :

Alan Dugan (1923–2003) was an American poet. Poems, his first publication, won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. His last book, Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry; won the National Book Award and the Lannan Literary Award.

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    Frontmatter

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    Foreword

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    Contents

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    This Morning Here

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    On an East Wind from the Wars

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    On an Old Advertisement and After a Photograph by Alfred Stieglitz

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    Philodendron

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    Imperial Song for Warmth

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    Prison Song

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    The So-called Wild Horses of the Water

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    Landfall

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    Sixteen Lines on Marching

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    Love Song: I and Thou

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    The Natural Enemies of the Conch

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    Importation of Landscapes

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    Portrait

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    Oasis

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    What Happened? What Do You Expect?

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    On Hurricane Jackson

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    Poem

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    The Branches of Water or Desire

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    Memorial Service for the Invasion Beach Where the Vacation in the Flesh Is Over

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    Portrait

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    Mockery Against the Irish Censorship

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    Weeds as Partial Survivors

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    The Mirror Perilous

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    Letter to Eve

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    Against France: On the Algerian Pleasures of Entity

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    Funeral Oration for a Mouse

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    I. Enigma: Calm: Addressed to the Air

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    II. Comment on I

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    How We Heard the Name

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    Morning Song

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    Orpheus

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    Tribute to Kafka for Someone Taken

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    Notes Toward a Spring Offensive

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    Transcribed Conversation in Praise of Cows

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    Actual Vision of Morning's Extrusion

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    Life Comparison

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    Cooled Heels Lament Against Frivolity, the Mask of Despair

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    On Being Unhappily in Love with Reason

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    Portrait from the Infantry

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    On an Architect

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    Letter to Donald Fall

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    Thesis, Antithesis, and Nostalgia

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    Triptych

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    General Prothalamion for Wartimes

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    On the Elk, Unwitnessed

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    Grace for Thursday

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    Stutterer

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    Holiday

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    On the Supposed Immorality of Orchids

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    Memories of Verdun

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    Wall, Cave, and Pillar Statements, After Asoka

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October 22, 2019
eBook ISBN:
9780300251623
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80
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This book is in the series
Yale Series of Younger Poets
This book is in the series
Yale Series of Younger Poets
https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300251623
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