Love poems / Alan Dugan ; edited by Dan Simon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dugan, Alan, Author.

Contributor:

Simon, Daniel, 1957- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Love poetry, American--20th century.

Love poetry, American.

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

Genre:

poetry.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

60 pages ; 16 cm

Other Title:

Love poems of Alan Dugan

Place of Publication:

New York : Seven Stories Press, [2025]

Summary:

"Unique, inimitable expressions of romantic love from a the National Book Award-winning poet, the great Irish American bard. The love poems of the Great American poet Alan Dugan rival those by Catullus and Neruda for their insight and wit that have offered solace and entertained readers for decades and beyond. Caustic, lustful and dark, these are yet beautiful expressions of the lionhearted Irish American poet, the core of his art, blending hurt and hardship with a powerful belief in the driving force that love is"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Argument to love as a person

Love song : I and thou

On a professional couple in a side-show

At Circe's place

For Lisa

Conspiracy of two against the world

Cop-shooting : on a newspaper photograph

Teacher's lament

Absent good girl, life of my mind

For a lost girl

Transformation

Glad at the cold (1955)

Apology (to the muse)

Provincetown / Totentanz

On a myth / On a conventional wisdom

On a summer goddess who should be nameless

Night scene before combat

Drunken memories of Anne Sexton

Note of quits

Prothalamion of quantum mechanics and astrophysics against the text "Philosophia Biou Kubernetes" (philosophy the guide of life)

From an interview with Alan Dugan by Keith Althaus that appeared in Northwest Review in 1982.

Notes:

Includes index.

Other Format:

Online version Dugan, Alan Love poems

ISBN:

9781644215104

1644215101

OCLC:

1542851228