Poems Six

by Alan Dugan

Poems deal with mortality, life, war, men and women, mythology, and the imagination

Genres: Poetry

79 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1989

Reviews

[Timothy Juhl · Rating 1 out of 5]

Another poetry collection to send to the donations or the pop-up book venture I'm planning at some point.

I had no familiarity with Dugan as a poet and while there were some poems that made me laugh, most of them felt overly heterosexually charged and often seemed to objectify and demean women. Others were too angry at something, whatever the poet felt angry with at the moment.

In the end, there was just not enough creativity or wordplay or humor to save this collection.

[c · Rating 2 out of 5]

A couple good ones here (“Lament for cellists and Jacqueline Dupré,” “on a desolation of the animals at night,” “Carla is a horse lover”) but mostly same-old, some pretty egregiously bad ones