Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry

Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry, the winner of the National Book Award, presents the life work of a giant of American letters, tracks a forty-year career of honest, tough artistry, and shows a man at nearly 80 years of age and still at the height of his poetic power. Dugan's new poems continue his career-long concerns with renewed vigor: the poet's insistence that art is a grounded practice threatened by pretension, the wry wit, the jibes at the academic and sententious, and the arresting observations on the quotidian battles of life. All the while he peppers his poems with humorous images of the grim and daunting topics of existential emptiness.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Published: 09/03/2002
ISBN: 9781583225127
Pages: 448
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.62h x 6.12w x 1.20d

Review Citations: New York Times 11/17/2002 pg. 60
Booksense '76 Nov/Dec 2002 11/01/2002 pg. 1