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Finding a new poet to admire is like Christmas. Dick Allen is a tremendous talent among whose honors is a National Books Critics Circle Final Nomination. No wonder! Reading his poems is seeing fresh, surprising images and events to which I keep saying, "Yes, that's it! " This collection includes both new poems and selections from previous collections. The thoughtfulness and gentility of the poems, the generosity of Allen's gift for turning the idea over and over to see it from all sides, enables our '90s version of transcendence: We escape from the grind of this world into Allen's inspired vision.
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Allen (Overnight in the Guest House of the Mystic, 1984) is an ordinary poet, but few poets are so good at being ordinary. His subjects are reflective and local (sometimes a bit parochial), his lines methodically iambic and not entirely like speech. The result is a style often distinguished from that of poets who are considered "difficult." Allen writes odes in the Horatian sense, unwilling to take risks, with conclusions that are not enigmatic; his highest purpose would be to tell us a little something about why it is good to be alive. At his best, Allen, like Horace, exposes our doubts and our folly with irony: "How peacefully, how endlessly, it stops," concludes a tribute to the eccentric project of a basement inventor in "The Perpetual Motion Machine." In the improbable "The Perfect Mind," which may be quoted here in entirety, "Each stone in the garden/ Carefully set/ After days of thought/ So that anywhere/ A leaf might fall/ Will be correct." Recommended.?Steven R. Ellis, Pennsylvania State Univ. Libs., Univ. Park
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Finding a new poet to admire is like Christmas. Dick Allen is a tremendous talent among whose honors is a National Books Critics Circle Final Nomination. No wonder! Reading his poems is seeing fresh, surprising images and events to which I keep saying, "Yes, that's it! " This collection includes both new poems and selections from previous collections. The thoughtfulness and gentility of the poems, the generosity of Allen's gift for turning the idea over and over to see it from all sides, enables our '90s version of transcendence: We escape from the grind of this world into Allen's inspired vision.
From Library Journal
Allen (Overnight in the Guest House of the Mystic, 1984) is an ordinary poet, but few poets are so good at being ordinary. His subjects are reflective and local (sometimes a bit parochial), his lines methodically iambic and not entirely like speech. The result is a style often distinguished from that of poets who are considered "difficult." Allen writes odes in the Horatian sense, unwilling to take risks, with conclusions that are not enigmatic; his highest purpose would be to tell us a little something about why it is good to be alive. At his best, Allen, like Horace, exposes our doubts and our folly with irony: "How peacefully, how endlessly, it stops," concludes a tribute to the eccentric project of a basement inventor in "The Perpetual Motion Machine." In the improbable "The Perfect Mind," which may be quoted here in entirety, "Each stone in the garden/ Carefully set/ After days of thought/ So that anywhere/ A leaf might fall/ Will be correct." Recommended.?Steven R. Ellis, Pennsylvania State Univ. Libs., Univ. Park
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- Details of Flesh by Cortney Davis in Front Matter
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- New Expansive Poetry by R.S. Gwynn in Back Matter
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