Love Poems of Alan Dugan

ALAN DUGAN (1923-2003) won the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize and his first National Book Award for his first book, Poems, published in 1961. Each subsequent book was simply titled Poems again, followed by a number in sequence. His last volume, Poems Seven, published by Seven Stories, won Dugan his second National Book Award. Dugan also won the Pulitzer Prize, the Prix de Rome, 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.