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Poems / by Alan Dugan ; foreword by Dudley Fitts

Author
Dugan, Alan
Uniform Title
Poems. Selections
Published
New Haven : Yale University Press, 2019.
Copyright Date
©2001
Edition
Centenary edition.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiii, 62 pages).
Additional Creators
Fitts, Dudley, 1903-1968
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Contents
This Morning Here -- On an East Wind from the Wars -- On an Old Advertisement and After a Photograph by Alfred Stieglitz -- Philodendron -- Imperial Song for Warmth -- Prison Song -- The So-called Wild Horses of the Water -- Landfall -- Sixteen Lines on Marching -- Love Song: I and Thou -- The Natural Enemies of the Conch -- Importation of Landscapes -- Portrait -- Oasis -- What Happened? What Do You Expect? -- On Hurricane Jackson -- Poem -- The Branches of Water or Desire -- Memorial Service for the Invasion Beach Where the Vacation in the Flesh Is Over -- Portrait -- Mockery Against the Irish Censorship -- Weeds as Partial Survivors -- The Mirror Perilous -- Letter to Eve -- Against France: On the Algerian Pleasures of Entity -- Funeral Oration for a Mouse -- I. Enigma: Calm: Addressed to the Air -- II. Comment on I -- How We Heard the Name -- Morning Song -- Orpheus -- Tribute to Kafka for Someone Taken -- Notes Toward a Spring Offensive -- Transcribed Conversation in Praise of Cows -- Actual Vision of Morning's Extrusion -- Life Comparison -- Cooled Heels Lament Against Frivolity, the Mask of Despair -- On Being Unhappily in Love with Reason -- Portrait from the Infantry -- On an Architect -- Letter to Donald Fall -- Thesis, Antithesis, and Nostalgia -- Triptych -- General Prothalamion for Wartimes -- On the Elk, Unwitnessed -- Grace for Thursday -- Stutterer -- Holiday -- On the Supposed Immorality of Orchids -- Memories of Verdun -- Wall, Cave, and Pillar Statements, After Asoka.
Summary
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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ISBN
9780300251623 (electronic bk.)
0300251629 (electronic bk.)
0300246366
9780300246360
9780300246360 (paperback alk. ; paper)
0300246366 (Trade Paper)
Note
"Published with assistance from a grant to honor James Merrill. Originally published in 1961 by Yale University Press with aid from the Mary Cady Tew Memorial Fund"--Title page verso
"Reprinted by permission of Seven Stories Press, Inc., from Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry, copyright © 1961, 1963, 1967, 1974, 1983, 1989, 2001 by Alan Dugan, a Seven Stories Press First Edition"--Title page verso
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