The Day Before: Poems

Name: One of the best collections in a long time
Item: The Day Before: New Poems
Rating: 5
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by Dick Allen

"A stunning follow-up to Allen's award-winning New and Selected. Accessible and profound. "No matter how tactile and specific he is, Allen always retains a sense of the greater world. . . . H]is pristine poems flow like timelines, drawing unexpected connections between happenings both major and minor, and observations both subtle and life changing."--Booklist

Dick Allen has received the Robert Frost Prize for Poetry and The Hart Crane Poetry Prize. His books include Ode to the Cold War, Flight and Pursuit, Overnight in the Guest House of the Mystic, Regions With No Proper Names, and Anon and Various Time Machine Poems. He recently retired from his position as Charles A. Dana Endowed Chair Professor at the University of Bridgeport and lives in Trumbull, Connecticut.

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1889330760

ISBN13:9781889330761

Release Date:April 2003

Publisher:Sarabande Books

Length:136 Pages

Weight:0.52 lbs.

Dimensions:0.4" x 6.1" x 9.1"

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One of the best collections in a long time

Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 21 years ago

Dick Allen is a word master, a poet whose work should be required reading by all poets, all Americans, all world citizens, and by anyone interested in life, language, and literature. Not only is this book physically beautiful, but the poems are wonderful. There is kindness, depth, awe, humor, and such a wide-ranging sensibility in Allen's poems that this book, although seeped in the modern (computers and all) will be timeless. Highly recommended.

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