This is the only collection of Dugan's poetry in print, chronicling a 40-year career and its shifting concerns. Here Alan Dugan adds to his body of work with nearly three dozen new poems. Eloquent, blunt, funny, or bitter, the poet, winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the Prix de Rome, comments on every facet of life. As Stanley Plumly noted when presenting the 2001 National Book Award for Poems Seven: ?[Dugan?s] crucial honesty ? as much as his resolute art ? is irresistible.?