Research Catalog

Title

Poems 4 / by Alan Dugan.

Author

Dugan, Alan

Publication

• Boston : Little, Brown and Company, [1974]
• ©1974

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Details

Additional Authors

Little, Brown and Company, publisher.

Description

xiii, 58 pages; 21 cm

Uniform Title

Poems. Selections

Alternative Title

• Poems.
• Poems four

Subject

• 1900-1999
• American poetry > 20th century
• Poetry, Modern > 20th century
• American poetry

Genre/Form

• poetry.
• Poetry
• Poetry.
• Poésie.

Note

• "An Atlantic Monthly Press book."

Contents

I. Business Jacob, the angel wrestler -- II. Comment on "Business Jacob, the angel wrestler" -- Morning at speed products -- Prayer -- Saint Monday -- On a dispossess precept. I -- On a dispossess precept. II -- Defendant -- Poem : "The city is empty..." -- On leaving town -- Passing through the Banford tolls -- On voyage -- Heart attack in bad air -- Poem : "Let them take to the air..." -- On the liquidation of zoology -- Rising in fall -- On looking for models -- Portrait in the form of an extended conceit -- Resolution of hesitancies -- The dark tower -- Poem : "I never saw any point..." -- Poem : "Speciously individual..." -- On being easy in the ritual of separation -- About the pseudo St. Dionysius -- Poem in two parts : I. "When I woke up..." II. "There are effects..." -- Poem : "Two shots down..." -- Love song : class analysis -- On a professional couple in a slide-show -- Family statements -- Cop-shooting : on a newspaper photograph -- Poem : "I've promised that..." -- On being a householder -- Poem : "Once on the beach..." -- Poem : "Who can abide whom..." -- Poem : "I'm in the house because..." -- On when McCarthy was a wolf among a nation of queer-queers -- Confession of heresy -- Poem : "I used to enjoy..." -- I dreamed I got a letter from Ezra Pound -- War duty -- Stentor and mourning -- On visiting a veterans hospital -- On going up to surgery in the morning and in favor of pain-killing drugs -- Death's chicken, named Amelia -- Two comments on "Death's chicken, named Amelia".

ISBN

• 0316194700
• 9780316194709
• 0316194719
• 9780316194716

LCCN

73019676

OCLC

• ocm00746017
• 746017
• SCSB-135952

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library