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Poems Seven : New and Complete Poetry by Alan Dugan; Carl Phillips is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Poems Seven : New and Complete Poetry about?
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. ** From Publishers Weekly Dugan's 1961 Poems (that year's Yale Younger Poets winner) turned much of the poetry establishment on its ear: Dugan's irreverent or cynical poems, full of horse sense and completely resistant to gloss, spoke to a community of readers soured on old forms and unattached to new ones. A celebration of spring showed how "the skunk cabbage generates its/ frost-thawing fart-gas in New Jersey and the first/ crocuses appear..." Other poems attacked America's growing involvement in Vietnam, and still others treated s
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Alan Dugan; Carl Phillips
- Publisher
- Seven Stories Press
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781609800239
- Category
- work of literary fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Poetry, Fiction
- Rating
- 4.3 / 5 (166 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14