{"product_id":"love-poems-of-alan-dugan-9781644215104","title":"Love Poems of Alan Dugan","description":"\u003cb\u003eUnique, inimitable expressions of romantic love from the National Book Award-winning poet, the great Irish American bard.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCaustic, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom \"Love Song: I and Thou,\" in \u003ci\u003ePoems \u003c\/i\u003e(1961): \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e I can nail my left palm\u003cbr\u003e To the left-hand crosspiece but\u003cbr\u003e I can't do everything myself: \u003cbr\u003e I need a hand to nail the right, \u003cbr\u003e A help, a love, a you, a wife. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnd from \"Night Scene before Combat\" in \u003ci\u003ePoems Six \u003c\/i\u003e(1989): \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e ... I should get back\u003cbr\u003e to the truck I I left idling\u003cbr\u003e by the curb, but I turn to you\u003cbr\u003e for one last time in sleep, love, \u003cbr\u003e before I put my uniform back on, \u003cbr\u003e check my piece, and say So Long.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eALAN DUGAN \u003c\/b\u003e(1923-2003) won the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize and his first National Book Award for his first book, \u003ci\u003ePoems\u003c\/i\u003e, published in 1961. Each subsequent book was simply titled \u003ci\u003ePoems \u003c\/i\u003eagain, followed by a number in sequence. His last volume, \u003ci\u003ePoems Seven\u003c\/i\u003e, published by Seven Stories, won Dugan his second National Book Award. Dugan also won the Pulitzer Prize, the \u003ci\u003ePrix de Rome\u003c\/i\u003e, and an award in literature from the American Academy and the Institute of Arts and Letters. He was a fellow of the American Academy in Rome and the recipient of two Guggenheim fellowships.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Seven Stories Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52057782419730,"sku":"9781644215104","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_38f0ee26-010e-465e-a3e5-f5c42f32f2aa.jpg?v=1772007146","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/love-poems-of-alan-dugan-9781644215104","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}