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Dan Dougherty is an American poet whose work deals chiefly with the daily losses, desires and guilt endured while scratching out an existence. His casual conversational style and ordinary subject matter makes his poetry easy to relate to and understand. Whether challenging God's absenteeism stewardship, recalling an intimate encounter, or relating harsh western landscapes to relationships, his work avoids the inward-gazing obscurity common in modern poetry through it's directness and lucidity of dealing with the subject matter. His work is marked by simple lyricism and a straightforward clarity of tone, which ought to appeal to lots of readers.