Alan Dugan (February 12, 1923 – September 3, 2003) was an American poet.
His first volume Poems published in 1961 was a chosen by the Yale Series of Younger Poets and went on to win the National Book Award for Poetry and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. His last volume, entitled Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry, was published in 2001 by Seven Stories Press in New York and won Dugan a second National Book Award. Since his death in 2003, a complete volume of collected poetry has yet to appear.
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—Leigh Brackett (1915–1978)
“bent nails
dance all over the surfacing
like maggots”
—Alan Dugan (b. 1923)