Poems Seven New and Complete Poetry

"Among other things Dugan is -- as if in passing -- a true antiwar poet, without easy postures or wetness...As a love poet, too, Dugan writes counter to the conventions...Though Dugan might hate the word, the teller of these awkward or unpleasant truths has a role that could be called sacred, as well as unwelcome. Where our appetite may be for something heroic, elevating or hedonistic, he is more likely to present us with something like a bill. He chooses to make the last poem in this volume a flattened parable called 'Closing Time at the Second Avenue Deli.'The material is the opposite of heroic, almost insolently so: a leaky container of leftover lamb stew in a cab. In a tour de force, the poet brings his ferocious, analytical mode to an extreme of the quotidian....Dugan's remarkable achievement is to see into mean or mundane materials with all the profundity and force of poetry."Dugan, Alan is the author of 'Poems Seven New and Complete Poetry', published 2001 under ISBN 9781583222652 and ISBN 1583222650.