| Edition |
Centenary edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 62 pages) |
| Series |
The Yale series of younger poets ; volume 57
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Yale series of younger poets ; v. 57.
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| 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 |
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"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 |
| Summary |
Comprised of ironic, unsentimental poems on subjects of everyday life, Poems is the 57th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
American poetry -- 20th century.
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American poetry -- 21st century.
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POETRY -- American -- General. |
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American poetry. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-2099 |
| Genre/Form |
Poetry
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poetry.
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Poetry.
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Poetry.
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| Added Author |
Fitts, Dudley, 1903-1968, writer of foreword.
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| Added Title |
Poems. Selections
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Dugan, Alan. Poems. Selections. Poems. New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2019 9780300246360 |
| ISBN |
9780300251623 (electronic bk.) |
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0300251629 (electronic bk.) |
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0300246366 |
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9780300246360 |
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9780300246360 (paperback alk. ; paper) |
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0300246366 (Trade Paper) |
| Standard No. |
9780300246360 |
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