Books : Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry
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by: Alan Dugan
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9781583225127
ISBN: 1583225129
Label: Seven Stories Press
Manufacturer: Seven Stories Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 422
Publication Date: July 01, 2003
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Sales Rank: 281885
Studio: Seven Stories Press
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This monumental collection tracks a forty-year career of honest, tough artistry, and shows an eighty-year-old at the height of his poetic power, affirming with renewed vigor that art is a grounded practice with no room for pretension.
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Rating:  - An Old Friend
I first read Alan Dugan in 1962. I have all six, now seven, volumes of his poetry. I taught his poems to my students of all ages for 30 years. His words make him one of my oldest, most trusted friends. Too bad I didn't teach enough children to feel the irony in "On an East Wind from the Wars" or "How We Heard the Name." Now we "ba-bas" are really in for it. Read Dugan if you haven't. Start with volume 1.
Rating: - 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.
Rating: - My favorite english poetry
This book of poetry is amazing. It is modern, ironic, hyperrational, and mostly free verse. It doesn't stint on the intellect, but doesn't come off as arrogant. It is everything I love in postmodern American poetry. I have thoroughly enjoyed reading it both aloud and to myself. Alan Dugan will be remembered.
Rating: - 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 ... Read More
Rating: - 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!
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