This volume presents the life work of a giant of American letters. This monumental collection, which includes 35 new poems, belongs on the shell of the great literature of post-World War II America. It tracks a 40-year career of honest, tough artistry, and shows a man at nearly 80 years of age still at the height of his poetic power. Dugan’s new poems continue his career-long concerns with renewed vigour, and he peppers his arresting observations and wry wit with humorous images of the grim and daunting topics of existential emptiness.