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Title: Uneven and immature
Review: It is with great disappointment that I write how unhappy I was with this book. I heard Dugan on NPR and the poems he read were intriguing...his voice plain and straightforward. In the interview he did mention that his writer's voice has not aged...that it is still 16 years old. This is obvious in most of his poetry. Even before I heard his interview I felt I was reading something written by an adolescent boy. That he can write about the mystery of skunk cabbage emerging through the snows and suddenly slip into adolescent penis metaphors makes me wonder how he won the National Book Award this month. There were a few gems and I kept hoping and wishing for more but, sadly, I couldn't find even one poem to move my world...which is what so much great poetry can do. His images felt hollow, his language trite and there was no flow...no spirit in the poetry. Sorry, this one gets returned.
