Love Poems of Alan Dugan [Paperback]

Unique, inimitable expressions of romantic love from the National Book Award-winning poet, the great Irish American bard.

The love poems of the Great American poet Alan Dugan rival those by Catullus and Neruda for their insight and wit that have offered solace and entertained readers for decades and beyond.

Caustic, lustful and dark, these are yet beautiful expressions of the lionhearted Irish American poet, the core of his art, blending hurt and hardship with a powerful belief in the driving force that love is.

From “Love Song: I and Thou,” in Poems (1961):

                  I can nail my left palm
                                    To the left-hand crosspiece but
                  I can’t do everything myself:
                                    I need a hand to nail the right,
        &am