Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry

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Now in paperback for everyone to enjoy, this winner of the 2001 National Book Award presents the life work of one of America's finest poets. [These poems'] magic derives from Dugan's ability to foreground the small, immediate detail, while lifting our eyes to something just beyond it' - The New Yorker 'Brings an intriguing and idiosyncratic vision to American poetry' - Library Journal (STARRED REVIEW) 'Dugan's remarkable achievement is to see into mean or mundane materials with all the profundity and force of poetry' - New York Times Book Review (COVER STORY)'

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"The teller of these awkward truths has a role that could be called sacred... Dugan's remarkable achievement is to see into mean or mundane materials with all the profundity and force of poetry." - New York Times Book Review (COVER STORY) "[These poems'] magic derives from Dugan's ability to foreground the small, immediate detail, while lifting our eyes to something just beyond it." - The New Yorker "Eloquent or blunt, sometimes baffling, funny or bitter, philosophical or curiously observant, [Dugan's poems] probe every part of life..." - Boston Globe

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Alan Dugan has won two National Book Awards - one in 1962 for his first book, Poems, and the other in 2001 for POEMS SEVEN. Dugan has also received the Pulitzer Prize and the Prix de Rome from the National Institute of Arts and Letters. He has been a fellow of the National Academy in Rome, and the recipient of two Guggenheim Foundation fellowships and a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. In 2002, he was named Massachusetts State Poet.