Who is Alan Dugan

Alan Dugan (February 12, 1923 – September 3, 2003) was an American poet.His first volume Poems published in 1961 was a chosen by the Yale Series of Younger Poets and went on to win the National Book Award for Poetry and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

His last volume, entitled Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry, was published in 2001 by Seven Stories Press in New York City and won Dugan a second National Book Award.

Life

Dugan grew up in Jamaica, Queens, and served in World War II, experiences which entered his poetry, though he was not a confessional poet.

He lived in Truro, Massachusetts on Cape Cod, where he was a member of the Writing Committee of the Fine Arts Work Center.

Dugan's work was published in successive numbered collec...
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Alan Dugan Poems

  • Elegy
    I know but will not tell
    you, Aunt Irene, why there
    are soap suds in the whiskey:
    Uncle Robert had to have ...
  • Wall, Cave, And Pillar Statements, After Asoka
    In order to perfect all readers
    the statements should he carved
    on rock walls, on cave walls,
    and on the sides of pillars so ...
  • On Looking For Models
    The trees in time
    have something else to do
    besides their treeing. What is it.
    I'm a starving to death ...
  • Internal Migration: On Being On Tour
    As an American traveler I have
    to remember not to get actionably mad
    about the way things are around here.
    Tomorrow Iâ??ll be a thousand miles away ...
  • Plague Of Dead Sharks
    Who knows whether the sea heals or corrodes?
    The wading, wintered pack-beasts of the feet
    slough off, in spring, the dead rind of the shoesâ??
    leather detention, the big toeâ??s yellow horn ...
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Poemtoday: the morning of the dying gigolo i sleep in my girl's bed all day long while she's out working. they think i must be very good because she keeps me: they should hear her crying when i wake her up to go to work. alan dugan
Kelvmackenzie: more good news on motd is that alan shearer and ian wright have refused to appear without lineker.. since we pay them £400k a year for saying "good goal" and " he'll be disappointed with that" i'm delighted they are off my payroll.
Borisdralyuk: alan dugan builds himself a demotic monument that he claims will last as long as the dewey decimal system — a harmless fib about permanence of which even zarathustra might approve. notice the rhymed couplet at the end: 13 syllables each, answering the question “why lie?”
Themoneyghost: (mood: alan dugan) but when i work, oh i get paid!, the police are courteous, and i can have a drink and breathe air. i feel classy. i am where the arms are.
Amazingartpix: it took 6 years, 4,200 hours and 720,000 photos for wildlife photographer alan mcfadyen to get this perfect shot. kingfisher diving into the water...
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We're hiking along at a two-forty pace
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We go rushing along; with our brows lined with sweat
And our cheeks pale and drawn every minute we dash,
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