Poetry. Suzi, the dark lady of these sonnets, is the breathtakingly beautiful, hopelessly elusive love object for their writer, who recognizes well the absurdity of his feelings. A collection spiked with puns and literary references, 67 MIXED MESSAGES could best be described as a work of passionate playfulness, pained sexuality, and deadly serious jokes. Every line scans, every acrostic makes sense, and every joke is funny. "With breathtaking ease, Ed Allen takes on the whole tradition of the sonnet, from Shakespeare to Frost, and emerges a clear winner.... After finishing 67 MIXED MESSAGES, I found myself echoing Allen's constant refrain, 'I love you, Suzi, too.'"--R. S. Gwynn.
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Ed Allen is winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction for his collection Ate It Anyway and author of two novels. The Showtime TV version of his novel Mustang Sally (titled Easy Six) aired during the summer of 2005. A former three-day contestant on Jeopardy!, he teaches at University of South Dakota.
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Ed Allen's writing is wonderful, exacting, always a surprise. Here he takes an old form, writing to an unattainable girl, and makes it simultaneously fresh and a reminder of the job poetry has done in the world since words were invented: to woo, commemorate, to put human longing to paper in an artful way.
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