Alan Dugan

Poems

originally published:
New Haven : Yale University Press
1961

We offered this copy of the first edition in 2010.

awards:

  • Pulitzer Prize for Poetry(1962)

reference info

bio notes:
born: 2/12/1923
died: 9/3/2003
born as: Alan Dugan

American poet who wrote with bemused sarcasm about mundane topics, infusing them with an ironic depth. A fully developed style was evident in his first verse collection, Poems (1961), which in 1962 won a National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize. Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature