The Day Before: Poems

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...

• 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"

Customer Reviews

One of the best collections in a long time

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.