Poems / by Alan Dugan ; foreword by Dudley Fitts.

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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Main Author: Dugan, Alan (Author)
Other Authors: Fitts, Dudley, 1903-1968 (writer of foreword.)
Other title:Poems. Selections
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2019.
Edition:Centenary edition.
Series:Yale series of younger poets ; v. 57.
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Table of 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.