Poems
Alan Dugan
Winner of the
National Book Award
The 1962 National Book Award
for the most distinguished book
of poetry published last year was
presented to Alan Dugan for his
book,
Poems,
Volume 57
in
the
Yale Series of Younger Poets. In
the citation the poetry judges,
Leonie Adams, Mark Van Doren,
and William Jay Smith, said, "To
Alan Dugan for centering upon
experience a strong imagination
and undeceived intelligence in
serious
and moving poems
through which laughter 'rings
like a chisel.'"
In this, his first book, Mr. Dugan
draws on a variety of sub–
jects, including waterfalls, house
plants, love, war, religion, and
the Irish. He says his poems
"deal with the grand themes of
love, work, death, and what the
world seems like now."
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Other winners of the
Yale Series of Younger Poets
Volume 56:
Bone Thoughts
by
George Starbuck.
Volume 58:
Views of Jeopardy
by Jack Gilbert.
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CONTRIBUTORS
"Communist Intentions" is a section
of JOHN STRACHEY's forthcom–
ing book on the problems of the
Cold War. Mr. Strachey represents
Dundee West and the Labor Party
in the British Parliament.
DORIS LESSING's "From the Black
Notebook" is part of her new novel,
The Golden Notebook, which will be
published in June by Simon
&
Schuster. She has - also written a
play, to be produced soon in
London.
FREDERICK SEIDEL recently won
the YMHA Poetry Award which
brought with it publication of his
book of poems, Final Solutions.
WRIGHT MORRIS is in Venice
finishing a novel which will appear
this Fall.
RICHARD WOLLHEIM teaches at
London University and is the author
of a recent Fabian pamphlet on art
and socialism and a book on F. H.
Bradley.
JOHN HENRY RALEIGH is at
Princeton this Spring as a Visiting
Fellow.
JOSEPH FRANK is now living in
Paris and working on a new book.
He will be teaching Comparative
Literature at Rutgers University
next year.
LEWIS COSER, who teaches at
Brandeis University, is at work
pn a new book, The Sociology of
Intellectuals.
