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Alan Dugan

Alan Dugan (February 12, 1923 – September 3, 2003), American poet who wrote with bemused sarcasm about mundane topics, infusing them with irony. A fully developed style is evident in his first verse collection, Poems (1961), which in 1962 won a National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize.

Life

Dugan grew up in Jamaica, Queens, and served in World War II, experiences which entered his poetry, though he was not a confessional poet. He lived in Truro, Massachusetts on Cape Cod, where he was a member of the Writing Committee of the Fine Arts Work Center.

Dugan's work was published in successive numbered collections under the simple title Poems.

Alan Dugan was married to the artist Judith Shahn, to whom he dedicated each of his books. He died on September 3, 2003, of pneumonia at age 80.

Awards

Dugan received many awards and fellowships for his poetry.

  • Poems (1961): Yale Series of Younger Poets, National Book Award for Poetry, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
  • Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry (2001): National Book Award.
  • Awarded the Prix De Rome by the National Institute of Arts and Letters (1962)
  • The Shelley Memorial Award: Poetry Society of America (1982)
  • The Award in Literature: American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters (1985)
  • Awarded the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry in 2002.

Works

  • Poems (1961)
  • Poems 2 (1963)
  • Poems 3 (1967)
  • Poems 4 (1974)
  • Poems Five: New and Collected Poems (1983)
  • Poems Six (1989)
  • Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry (2001)

National Book Awards

National Book Awards, annual awards given to books of the highest quality written by Americans and published by American publishers. The awards were founded in 1950 by the American Book Publishers Council, American Booksellers Association, and Book Manufacturers Institute. From 1976 to 1979 they were administered by the National Book Committee. In 1980 they were renamed the American Book Awards and were conferred by the American Booksellers Association. Seven years later the awards were again called the National Book Awards, and they were thereafter granted by the National Book Foundation.

The process begins when publishers submit selected books to compete in several categories, chiefly fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Winners are chosen by five-member panels selected for each genre; they receive a $10,000 cash award and a crystal sculpture. Awards are also intermittently given for children’s literature, autobiography, first novel, and other categories. Past winners include William Carlos Williams, Bruce Catton, Theodore Roethke, Katherine Anne Porter, Edward Seidensticker, Flannery O’Connor, Lewis Thomas, and Madeleine L’Engle.

Young Girl

Alan Dugan

The Working World’s Bloody Flux

Alan Dugan

Winter’s Onset from an Alienated Point of View

Alan Dugan

What the Hell, Rage, Give in to Natural Graces

Alan Dugan

Variation on a Theme by Stevens

Alan Dugan

Variation of Themes by Roethke & Eliot

Alan Dugan

Tuesday

Alan Dugan

To Sleep

Alan Dugan

To a Red-Headed Do-Good Waitress

Alan Dugan

Three as a Magic Number

Alan Dugan

Stentor and Mourning

Alan Dugan

Song for a Deformed Prince

Alan Dugan

Soldier

Alan Dugan

On Zero

Alan Dugan

On Trees

Alan Dugan

On Rape Unattempted

Alan Dugan

On an East Wind from the Wars

Alan Dugan

Oasis

Alan Dugan

Notes Toward a Spring Offensive

Alan Dugan

Niagara Falls

Alan Dugan

Natural Enemies of the Conch

Alan Dugan

The Martyr

Alan Dugan

Landfall

Alan Dugan

Imperial Song for Warmth

Alan Dugan

His Hands Have Five Knives Each

Alan Dugan

From Heraclitus

Alan Dugan

Free Variation on a Translation from Greek

Alan Dugan

Flower Grower in Aquarius

Alan Dugan

Family Scene: Young Vet and Relatives

Alan Dugan

The Explorer

Alan Dugan

Dedication for a Building

Alan Dugan

Conspiracy of Two against the World

Alan Dugan

The Christian Scientist I Love

Alan Dugan

The Branches of Water or Desire

Alan Dugan

Barefoot for a Scorpion

Alan Dugan

Aubade: Chant of the Innocents

Alan Dugan

Aside

Alan Dugan

April

Alan Dugan

Admonitor: A Pearl for Arrogance

Alan Dugan

Actual Vision of Morning’s Extrusion

Alan Dugan

Accommodation to Detroit

Alan Dugan

Against A Sickness: To The Female Double Principle God

Alan Dugan

Drunken Memories Of Anne Sexton

Alan Dugan

Elegy

Alan Dugan

Fabrication Of Ancestors

Alan Dugan

How We Heard the Name

Alan Dugan

Internal Migration: On Being On Tour

Alan Dugan

Love Song: I And Thou

Alan Dugan

Monologue Of A Commercial Fisherman

Alan Dugan

Nomenclature

Alan Dugan

On Being A Householder

Alan Dugan

On Hurricane Jackson

Alan Dugan

On Looking for Models

Alan Dugan

On The Civil War On The East Coast Of The United States Of North America 1860-64

Alan Dugan

Plague Of Dead Sharks

Alan Dugan

Poem

Alan Dugan

Portrait From The Infantry

Alan Dugan

Prayer

Alan Dugan

Prison Song

Alan Dugan

Remembering An Account Executive

Alan Dugan

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