Off the Road Poetry 1989-2000: Poetry 1989-2000

By Johnny Dolphin

The poems in Off the Road tell the story of a man has chosen to embrace life--firmly--understanding full well that that means embracing the challenges and failures along with the successes and rewards. Because the man is Johnny Dolphin (otherwise known as John Allen), a man who has traveled around the world, fathered scientific concepts (including Biosphere 2) and artistic concepts (including Caravan of Dreams Theater), and whose friends run the gamut from the most famous (and infamous) thinkers of the last 60 years to folks from the most remote cultures left on the planet, the life being embraced here is as rich in scope as the poetry describing it is rich in stylistic approach. The writing in Off the Road is straight-forward, unassuming, provocative, and playful by turns. Yet this is a poet whose intent is never to hide behind his words. Off The Road is an excellent journey, providing the reader with a vast multitude of introductions and adventures.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0907791301
• ISBN13: 9780907791300
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: Synergetic Press
• Length: 158 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

A superbly crafted and presented compendium

Johnny Dolphin is the pen name of poet, playwright, savant, inventor John Allen, who is also the co-founder of the world's largest laboratory for global ecology, Biosphere 2. Off The Road is a superbly crafted and presented compendium of the best of his verse and a "must" for all of his fans within and without the environmental movement. Aphorism Sequence: A philosophy is a shadow of a man./A philosopher, a shadower of himself.//A work of art, a mirror of a man./An artist, an image of himself.//An adventure is a search of a man./An adventurer, a gesture of himself.//A poem is a vision of a man./A poet, a metaphor of himself.//A piece of science, an experiment of a man./A scientist, an experience of himself.//But who has ever seen a man? Seldom do we see/even a shadow, an image, a gesture, a metaphor,/an experience of himself.//Only off the road: an appearance of a man./Way the hell off any road: an emanation of himself.