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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: DUGAN, ALAN Matches Found: 188 Dugan, Alan Poet's Biography poems available by this author 851 Poem Text First Line: A flying pigeon hit me on a fall day Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ACCOMMODATION TO DETROIT Poem Text First Line: When good people die they become worms in detroit, they day Subject(s): Hamtramck, Michigan; Detroit, Michigan; Death; Dead, The ACTUAL VISION OF MORNING'S EXTRUSION Poem Text First Line: Grey smoke rose from the morning ground ACTUAL VISION OF MORNING'S EXTRUSION First Line: Grey smoke rose from the morning ground Last Line: Reactively, could have in mind ADMONITOR: A PEARL FOR ARROGANCE Poem Text First Line: In winter a crow flew at my head AGAINST A SICKNESS: TO THE FEMALE DOUBLE PRINCIPLE GOD First Line: She said: 'I'm god and all' AGAINST THE TEXT ART IS IMMORTAL First Line: All art is temporal. All art is lost Last Line: Primitive musketeers, primitive chiselers. This time %we can really blast the beast of man to bits AMERICAN TOURIST TO A GUATEMALAN TARANTULA First Line: You are the black prince of bananas AMERICAN VARIATION ON HOW RILKE LOVED A PRINCESS AND GO TO STAY IN ... Poem Text First Line: She said that underneath the surface Last Line: Cling to your knife Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; United States; America AMERICAN VARIATION ON HOW RILKE LOVED A PRINCESS AND GO TO STAY IN ... First Line: She said that underneath the surface Last Line: I was a good american poet Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; United States ANSWER TO THE RILKE QUESTION First Line: Wer, wenn ich schriee, horte mich denn aus der engel APRIL Poem Text First Line: The old man in shining black, with the immense black umbrella ASIDE Poem Text First Line: Under the el on sunday afternoon AUBADE: CHANT OF THE INNOCENTS Poem Text First Line: I shall arise in the morning and make my bed AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL LIBATION TO ERATO MUSE OF LYRIC POETRY First Line: The baby-sized but skinny bronze statuette in a bronze grecian robe BAREFOOT FOR A SCORPION Poem Text First Line: The color of the sac and stinger of the scorpion Subject(s): Scorpions BAREFOOT HOMILETICS, AFTER WITTGENSTEIN AND BOSWELL Poem Text First Line: Dew in the morning, dust at noon, BAREFOOT HOMILETICS, AFTER WITTGENSTEIN AND BOSWELL First Line: Dew in the morning, dust at noon Last Line: So, seek water. Avoid the shod BOAST First Line: I've walked every walkable bridge CARLA IS A HORSE LOVER First Line: Carla bought an old horse CONSPIRACY OF TWO AGAINST THE WORLD Poem Text First Line: If I were out of love CRITICISM BERGSON AND DARWIN First Line: The primeval fish was like a squid, all mouth DEDICATION FOR A BUILDING Poem Text First Line: Excavation for the new Subject(s): Bellevue Hospital, New York City DEDICATION FOR A BUILDING First Line: The excavation for the new DRUNKEN MEMORIES OF ANNE SEXTON Poem Text First Line: The first and last time I met Last Line: As I drank the lees of her wine Subject(s): Memory; Sexton, Anne (1928-1974) DRUNKEN MEMORIES OF ANNE SEXTON First Line: The firsta nd last time I met Last Line: As I drank the lees of her wine Subject(s): Memory; Sexton, Anne (1928-1974) DYING SEAGULL AND THE GREAT WHORE OF THE WORLD First Line: The seagull sitting on the town beach must ELEGY Poem Text First Line: I know but will not tell Last Line: Father, hello and goodbye Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Dead, The ELEGY First Line: I know but will not tell Last Line: Father, hello and goodbye Subject(s): Death; Fathers ELEGY FOR A MAGICIAN First Line: Once I got so skinny ELEGY FOR A PURITAN CONSCIENCE First Line: I closed my ears with stinging bugs EMPIRICAL SCENE First Line: We saw a grand piano fall off a roof ENVY OF NATURAL FORMAL LIBERTIES First Line: You birds stay out all night FABRICATION OF ANCESTORS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The old wound in my ass Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry FABRICATION OF ANCESTORS First Line: The old wound in my ass FAMILY SCENE: YOUNG VET AND RELATIVES Poem Text First Line: He will smile and corroborate the evidence FEBRUARY TWELFTH BIRTHDAYS STATEMENT First Line: That nameless son of a bitch of a critic FLOWER GROWER IN AQUARIUS Poem Text First Line: I fell away toward death FOR AN OBLIGATE PARASITE Poem Text First Line: Mother!, I am sick / of alcohol and grown up Last Line: Them? Wills. Lovers. You Subject(s): Hate FOR AN OBLIGATE PARASITE First Line: Mother!, I am sick %of alcohol and grown up Last Line: Who needs %them? Wills. Lovers. You Subject(s): Hate FOR MASTURBATION First Line: I have allowed myself FREE VARIATION ON A TRANSLATION FROM GREEK Poem Text First Line: In times of peace and good government FROM A STORY IN THE NEW YORK SUNDAY TIMES TRAVEL SECTION First Line: When the french monks stole the bones Last Line: They join our general incest of dust or fire Variant Title(s): On A Travel Story From Wormwood Valley Subject(s): New York Times (newspaper); Nuclear War; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb FROM A STORY IN THE NEW YORK SUNDAY TIMES TRAVEL SECTION First Line: When the french monks stole the bones Variant Title(s): On A Travel Story From Wormwood Valle Subject(s): New York Times (newspaper); Nuclear War FROM HERACLITUS Poem Text First Line: Matter is palsy; the land heaving, water FUNERAL ORATION FOR A MOUSE First Line: This, lord, was an anxious brother and Last Line: Into the common death beyond the mousetrap GARGOYLE'S SONG FOR THE WARMING TREND First Line: I am a sewer GLAD AT THE COLD (1955) First Line: The live storm went through last night HIS HANDS HAVE FIVE KNIVES EACH Poem Text First Line: The birth of seventh avenue HOW WE HEARD THE NAME Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The river brought down Subject(s): War; Alexander The Great (356-323 B.c.) HOW WE HEARD THE NAME First Line: The river brought down %dead horses, dead men Last Line: All of you ba-bas %will hear of as a god IMPERIAL SONG FOR WARMTH Poem Text First Line: Snow that makes graces on a soldier's sleeve Subject(s): Soldiers; Snow IN MEMORIUM: AURELIUS BATTAGLIA First Line: Aurelius battaglia, the greatest loudmouth in the world INTERNAL MIGRATION: ON BEING ON TOUR First Line: As an american traveler I have INTRODUCTON TO THE TELEPHONE First Line: The telephone rang in the grocery store KNOW THYSELF First Line: I must have meant something to her because she named her dog Last Line: Along the atlantic coast while marshall zhukov took %the final kennel and won that mad dog's dehuman LAMENT FOR CELLISTS AND JACQUELINE DUPRE First Line: When the beautiful cellist jacqueline dupre LANDFALL Poem Text First Line: The curtains belly in the waking room LAST STATEMENT FOR A LAST ORACLE First Line: After this oracle there will be no more oracles LET HEROES ACCOUNT TO LOVE First Line: I too was born out of a lion's mouth LETTER TO EVE First Line: The lion and lioness are intractable Last Line: And want to know how I will choose LOVE AND MONEY First Line: The united states of america is like a conviction LOVE SONG: I AND THOU Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Nothing is plumb, level, or square: Subject(s): Love; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love LOVE SONG: I AND THOU First Line: Nothing is plumb, level or square Last Line: A help, a love, a you, a life Subject(s): Love - Marital MARXIST ANALYSIS OF THE FIFTH LABOR OF HERCULES First Line: The augean stables were so full of horseshit MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR INVASION BEACH WHERE VACATION IN FLESH IS OVER Poem Text First Line: I see that there it is on the beach Last Line: And barely can not hear them calling, “here's one” Subject(s): World War Ii; Second World War MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR INVASION BEACH WHERE VACATION IN FLESH IS OVER First Line: I see that there it is on the beach Last Line: And barely can not hear them calling, here's one Subject(s): World War Ii MEMORIES OF 1936-7 First Line: When I walked my nazi girlfriend MEMORIES OF A BOSS IN AN AD AGENCY First Line: He walked around dictating MEMORIES OF THE BOWERY First Line: Pray for me and die rotten' MEMORIES OF VERDUN Poem Text First Line: The men laughed and baaed like sheep Last Line: They were afraid of less, its lieutenant Subject(s): World War I; Verdun, Battle Of (1916); First World War MEMORIES OF VERDUN First Line: The men laughed and baaed like sheep Last Line: I was afraid of nothing, a death; %they were afraid of less,its lieutenant Subject(s): World War I MIRROR PERILOUS First Line: I guess there is a garden named Last Line: Possessed of an echo but not a fate MOCK TRANSLATION FROM THE GREEK First Line: Both erato the muse of lyric poetry and mime MOCKERY AGAINST THE IRISH CENSORSHIP Poem Text First Line: Ireland was better in its dream Last Line: With american insult! Irish sense is dead Subject(s): Censorship MOCKERY AGAINST THE IRISH CENSORSHIP First Line: Ireland was better in its dream Last Line: With american insult! Irish sense is dead Subject(s): Censorship MONOLOGUE FOR A SIXTH AVENUE SCREAMER First Line: You don't know anything about city life MONOLOGUE OF A COMMERCIAL FISHERMAN Poem Text Recitation by Author Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers NATURAL ENEMIES OF THE CONCH Poem Text First Line: The first point of the shell Subject(s): Conch NIAGARA FALLS Poem Text First Line: We saw it all. We saw the souvenir shops, and sitting Subject(s): Niagara Falls NIGHT SCENCE BEFORE COMBAT First Line: There are trucks going down our street tonight NOMENCLATURE Poem Text First Line: My mother never heard of freud NOMENCLATURE First Line: My mother never heard of freud Last Line: Prosthesis does not speak french NOT TO CHOOSE First Line: I should be someplace else Last Line: To begin again in another state NOTE First Line: This is what your cat does NOTE: THE SEA GRINDS THINGS UP First Line: It's going on now Last Line: It's a lonely situation NOTES TOWARD A SPRING OFFENSIVE Poem Text First Line: I begin again in may, describing weather, how Subject(s): Spring OASIS Poem Text First Line: Whelped from blackness by a pressure of rocks ON A BENIGN BEUREAUCRATIZATION OF DEATH First Line: After my father died fighting ON A DESOLATION OF THE ANIMALS AT NIGHT First Line: I used to think that the animals ON A FALLEN STATUE FORBIDDEN TO THE WOMEN AT POMPEII First Line: I was the only man in the world ON A MYTH ON A CONVENTIONAL WISDOM First Line: Who has more fun in bed, men or women ON A POCKETKNIFE. ON CARRYING First Line: If only a maniac possessed it ON A SEVEN-DAY DIARY Poem Text First Line: Oh I got up and went to work Last Line: Refreshed but tired by the weekend Subject(s): Diaries ON A SEVEN-DAY DIARY First Line: Oh I got up and went to work Last Line: Refreshed but tired by the weekend Subject(s): Diaries ON A SKUNKED FOX First Line: I found out where the smell was coming from ON A SUMMER GODDESS WHO SHOULD BE NAMELESS First Line: There are two things you have ON AN EAST WIND FROM THE WARS Poem Text First Line: The wind came in for several thousand miles all night Subject(s): War ON AN EAST WIND FROM THE WARS First Line: The wind came in for several thousand miles all night Last Line: Your children's new names in the tombstone of thin air Subject(s): War ON BEING A HOUSEHOLDER First Line: I lived inside a machine ON BEING OUT-CLASSED BY CLASS Poem Text First Line: Where I came from is torn down Last Line: Up art! Up the I.R.A.! Subject(s): Immigrants: Irish-americans ON BEING OUT-CLASSED BY CLASS First Line: Where I came from is torn down Last Line: Up art! Up the I.R.A! Subject(s): Dugan, Alan (1923-2003) ON FINDING THE TREE OF LIFE First Line: If there is an outside out there ON FINGERNAILS IN BLOODY TIMES First Line: God help the fingernails ON FISHING BEING A CHANCY LIFE First Line: Once my wife and I were invited out trap-fishing ON FLOWERS. ON NEGATIVE EVOLUTION Poem Text First Line: When the front-end loader ran over my wife's montauk daisies Last Line: Have been more careful with my wife's god-damned daisies Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening ON FLOWERS. ON NEGATIVE EVOLUTION First Line: When the front-end loader ran over my wife's montauk daisies Last Line: Have been more careful with my wife's god-damned daisies Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening ON HALLOWEEN First Line: The gorilla mask got put away ON HURRICANE JACKSON Poem Text Recitation by Author Subject(s): Jackson, Tommy Hurricane (1931-1982); Boxing & Boxers ON HURRICANE JACKSON First Line: Now his nose's bridge is broken, one eye Last Line: To the statistical sparta of the champs ON LEAVING TOWN First Line: This must be a bad dream. We will wake up ON LOOKING FOR MODELS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: The trees in time ON NAMING A BABY MIMOSA First Line: Oh sensitive mimosa, you have ON PLUMBING AFTER AN AIR RAID First Line: The houses have dropped their bricks ON RAPE UNATTEMPTED Poem Text First Line: Be alive, they say, when I Subject(s): Love - Unrequited ON THE DEATH OF NORMAN DUKES First Line: When the poet was dying of cancer ON THE ELK, UNWITNESSED First Line: The frantic elk climb from the valleys to escape the flies Last Line: Into the sky, too, that is the cycle of the really stung ON THE LONG ISLAND RAILROAD SYSTEM First Line: I used to hate to ride the long island railroad trains ON TRADING TIME FOR LIFE BY WORK First Line: The receptionist has shiny fingernails Last Line: Of the transcendence printed on the product ON TREES First Line: Don't talk to me about trees having branches and roots ON ZERO Poem Text First Line: The man who first saw nothing ONE USED TO BE ABLE TO SAY Poem Text Last Line: Even pollute the people under his own roof Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Sea Serpents ONE USED TO BE ABLE TO SAY Subject(s): Environment; Sea Monsters OXYMORONIC HOSPITAL BLUES First Line: I knew it was going to end badly PERVERSE EXPLANATION FOR MUTILATED STATUARY First Line: Her hair was made of poisonous snakes PLAGUE OF DEAD SHARKS Poem Text First Line: Who knows whether the sea heals or corrodes? Subject(s): Sharks PLAGUE OF DEAD SHARKS First Line: Who knows whether the sea heals or corrodes? POEM First Line: After your first poetry reading POEM FOR ELLIOT CARTER ON HIS 90TH BIRTHDAY Poem Text First Line: I was walking behind elliot carter Last Line: Playing anyway, invisibly unheard Subject(s): Birthdays POEM FOR ELLIOT CARTER ON HIS 90TH BIRTHDAY First Line: I was walking behind elliot carter Last Line: Playig anyway, invisibly unheard Subject(s): Birthdays POEMS Poem Text First Line: What's the balm Last Line: For the flowers anyhow Subject(s): Aging POEMS First Line: What's the balm Subject(s): Aging PORTRAIT Poem Text First Line: The captive flourished like PORTRAIT First Line: The captive flourished like %a mushroom in his oubliette Last Line: Detention in their stone dismay %unaided PORTRAIT FROM THE INFANTRY Poem Text First Line: He smelled bad and was red-eyed with the miseries Last Line: Him back up. “isn't he awful?” she said Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii; Second World War PORTRAIT FROM THE INFANTRY First Line: He smelled bad and was red-eyed with the miseries Last Line: Isn't he awful?' she said Subject(s): Soldiers; World War Ii PRAYER Poem Text Recitation First Line: God, I need a job because I need money Last Line: I need a job again. I’m caught in a steel cycle Subject(s): Poverty; Unemployment PRAYER First Line: God, I need a job because I need money Subject(s): Poverty; Unemployment PRETRIAL HEARING First Line: I thought she was a liberated woman PRISON SONG Poem Text First Line: The skin ripples over my body like moon-wooed water Subject(s): Prisons & Prisoners; Convicts PRISON SONG First Line: The skin ripples over my body like moon-wooed water Last Line: And set off fireworks to praise a homemade day PRO-NUKE BLUES First Line: Bloom you flowers while you can Subject(s): Nuclear War; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb PRO-NUKE BLUES First Line: Bloom you flowers while you can Subject(s): Nuclear War PROVINCETOWN TOTENTANZ First Line: It's obscene, the way you have a girl's voice REMEMBERING AN ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE First Line: He had a back office in his older brother's RETRACTION First Line: I gave up art because SEXIST LAMENT: RUIN BY MONITOR First Line: When you came in the office saying hi SOLDIER Poem Text First Line: Having felt and forgotten the wind during the time for wind SOLILOQUY: GHOST DANCE FOR A CRIPPLE First Line: Something has happened to the air: a fly SONG FOR A DEFORMED PRINCE Poem Text First Line: If lovers war SPACE IS NOT MERELY A BACKGROUND FOR EVENTS - EINSTEIN First Line: As an individual penance when my nothing SPEECH FOR AUDEN First Line: You were out when I called SPEECH TO THE STUDENT CLOWNS AT THE CIRCUS CLOWN SCHOOL First Line: You innocents who want to play the clown SPRING SONG FOR SYMPLOCARPUS FOETIDA AND ME First Line: Any plant that makes its own spring STENTOR AND MOURNING Poem Text First Line: Sunday was calm and airy STORY FOR ACTORS First Line: There's a story that a traveling greek actor STUTTERER Poem Text First Line: Courage: your tongue has left Last Line: Where lies of love are fair Subject(s): Speech Disorders; Stuttering; Muteness STUTTERER First Line: Courage: your tongue has left Last Line: Down to the old mill stream %where lies of love are fair Subject(s): Speech Disorders SUBURBAN EXORCISM First Line: When the witches' coven across the street SURVIVING THE HURRICANE First Line: When the neighbor's outhouse went by SWING SHIFT BLUES Poem Text First Line: What is better than leaving a bar SWING SHIFT BLUES First Line: What is better than leaving a bar Last Line: That we don't go to when he's there TAKEOFF ON ARMAGEDDON First Line: As we tour the field in the pause THE BRANCHES OF WATER OR DESIRE Poem Text First Line: Imagine that the fast life of a bird THE CHRISTIAN SCIENTIST I LOVE Poem Text First Line: Proud, full of sense in nervous instances THE EXPLORER Poem Text First Line: The native girls were dirty, he never mentioned THE MARTYR Poem Text First Line: That he was guilty of those fantastic charges THE WORKING WORLD'S BLOODY FLUX Poem Text First Line: What do you do if you meet a witch? THESIS, ANTITHESIS, AND NOSTALGIA First Line: Not even dried-up leaves Last Line: The writer and the named are gone THREE AS A MAGIC NUMBER Poem Text First Line: Three times dark, first in the mind TO A COLLEAGUE. FROM THE COUNTRY First Line: I'm jealous of your life. What Last Line: Crocuses appear in rockefeller center's channel gardens: %fall, it is not so bad at dugan's edge TO A RED-HEADED DO-GOOD WAITRESS Poem Text First Line: Every morning I went to her charity and learned Last Line: A policeman and a wrong sonnet in fifteen lines Subject(s): Restaurants; Sonnets (as Literary Form); Cafes; Diners TO A RED-HEADED DO-GOOD WAITRESS First Line: Every morning I went to her charity and learned Last Line: A policeman and a wrong sonnet in fifteen lines Subject(s): Restaurants TO SLEEP Poem Text First Line: Love's arsenal is dark Subject(s): Sleep TOURISTIC NOTE FROM THE GULF First Line: As the fisherman pulled up against the giant manta ray TRAVEL ADVISORY FOR A NIGHT SHIFT First Line: It is the kind of raw and changeable afternoon TRIBUTE TO KAFKA FOR SOMEONE TAKEN First Line: The party is going strong TUESDAY Poem Text First Line: There are no lovers in the park tonight. O no Subject(s): Night; Bedtime UNTITLED POEM First Line: Once, one of my students read a book we had VARIATION OF THEMES BY ROETHKE & ELIOT Poem Text First Line: The child signed the steamed pane VARIATION ON A THEME BY STEVENS Poem Text First Line: In fall and whiskey weather when WALL, CAVE, AND PILLAR STATEMENTS, AFTER ASôKA Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: In order to perfect all readers Subject(s): Religion; Theology WALL, CAVE, AND PILLAR STATEMENTS, AFTER ASOKA First Line: In order to perfect all readers Last Line: Other graffiti of the prisoners of this world WEEDS AS PARTIAL SURVIVORS First Line: The chorus of the weeds, unnameably Last Line: Lines of our harrowed grains WHAT THE HELL, RAGE, GIVE IN TO NATURAL GRACES Poem Text First Line: She walks. This never has WHY THERE IS NO CLASS SOLIDARITY IN AMERICA I READ IT First Line: An italian in hackensack got mad WINTER'S ONSET FROM AN ALIENATED POINT OF VIEW Poem Text First Line: The first cold front came in Subject(s): Winter YOUNG GIRL Poem Text First Line: All her lief she had been chasing him as fast as she could go |
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