Great academic analysis of the science fiction genre.

Looking Ahead: The Vision of Science Fiction

Literature & Fiction

Allen, Dick

Allen, Lori

History & Criticism

Harcourt College Pub.

Science Fiction: The Future [Jan 01, 1983] Allen, Dick and Allen, L. David ... 0155786512

Science Fiction: The Future

Literary

Harvard Univ Dept City & Regional

Overnight in the Guest House of the Mystic: Poems

Overnight in the Guest House of the Mystic

Poetry

Louisiana State Univ

Louisiana State University Press

Traces the tumultuous career of a baseball superstar who has also seen his share of trouble--from ongoing wars with the baseball establishment to on-the-field brawls, to his experience as the first black player in Arkansas

Crash: The Life and Times of Dick Allen

Whitaker, Tim

Biographies & Memoirs

Ticknor & Fields

One of America's foremost poets of the transition generation illuminates the final half of the 20th century.

Ode to the Cold War: Poems New and Selected

Sarabande Books

Dick Allen’s earlier collections have always included poems written in traditional form.But This Shadowy Place is his only book in which every poem is rhymed and metered.Allen’s “stand alone” new poems – narrative, meditative, lyric, sometimes excursionsinto Zen Buddhism – consistently merge traditional form with his hallmark cultural,political and religious themes. Even when seeming to write of himself, Allen is actuallyforever writing of the strange and unique transitions from the American TwentiethCentury to the Twenty-first. Known as one of the best craftsmen and poetry performersin the country, Allen here gives us new poems that when read either silently or aloudconstantly shift between the literal and the metaphorical. The paths in these new poemslead unexpectedly through both calming and foreboding shadows.Dick Allen is the author of seven previous poetry collections, including Present Vanishing,The Day Before, and Ode to the Cold War: Poems New and Selected. He’s received NationalEndowment for the Arts and Ingram Merrill Poetry Writing Fellowships, six inclusions inThe Best American Poetry annual volumes, a Pushcart Prize, among numerous other nationalawards. His poems have appeared regularly in many of America’s leading magazines,including The Atlantic, The Georgia Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Hudson Review, TheNew Criterion, The New Yorker, Poetry, The New Republic, Tricycle, Rattle, and The AmericanScholar. Dick Allen was appointed as the Connecticut State Poet Laureate (2010–2015),succeeding John Hollander.This Shadowy Place is the thirteenth winner of the annual New Criterion PoetryPrize. Previous winners of the prize include Deborah Warren, Adam Kirsch, CharlesTomlinson, Bill Coyle, Geoffrey Brock, J. Allyn Rosser, Daniel Brown, D.H. Tracy, and,prior to Allen, George Green. The New Criterion Poetry Prize was established in 2000and is awarded annually to a book-length manuscript of poems that pays close attentionto form. The series has for many years attracted the attention of both readers and critics,and Booklist has called

This Shadowy Place: Poems

St. Augustines Press

A unique voice in American poetry evocative of Han Shan’s Zen verses, Pablo Neruda’s Book of Questions, and the writings of Jack Kerouac. What a long conversation we never had! All those rivers? we never crossed together. You so busy with your own life, I so busy with mine. Dick Allen, one of the founders of the Expansive Poetry movement, has won the Robert Frost Prize, the Hart Crane Poetry Prize, and the Pushcart Prize—among others. His work has been anthologized five times in the Best American Poetry volumes, and has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Tricycle, The Buddhist Poetry Review, and The American Poetry Review, as well as numerous other publications. He’s a former fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts, and a former Poet Laureate for the state of Connecticut, where he lives and writes.

Zen Master Poems (1) (New Wisdom Poems)

Wisdom Publications

<div>Dick Allen is a central figure in America's often neglected "transition generation"-poets born in the late 1930s and early 1940s. Known both for his poetry and for his innovative writing on poetics, Allen has long promoted the idea that our art must move away from narrow self-concern and include the worlds of contemporary events, science and religion. His poems, wide-ranging, visionary, and unique, powerfully engage the intellectual and moral questions of our time.Ode to the Cold War: Poems New and Selected is a showcase for over thirty years of work by this increasingly celebrated master of American verse. "Dick Allen's Poetry is a poetry of images, but without being either fully abandoned to the sometimes perplexing processes of thought . . . particularly the unconscious . . . fully immersed in the tactile, physical world that invites description. Instead, his approach is painterly, . . . with the metaphors less found than constructed."-Poetry "Allen'sOde to the Cold War: Poems New & Selected gives the reader an opportunity to assess what this particular poet has been up to for over thirty years. . . . Here he is writing with all his senses: fuschsia looks like 'a clown's umbrella of red and purple and tassels'; a frog gives both 'plash and galump'; one can semll doused campfires and incense tapers, feel the wind blowing on prison walls above secret towns. . . . Throughout these new poems Allen is writing a poetry of ideas-asking big questions such as, 'Does anything ever happen/The way we suppose? Is it our suppositions/Which change the patterns from what might have happened?' These are very satisfying poems, which invariably know when and how to end."-The Hudson Review "This wide-ranging collection from a 30-year career shows Allen's poetry developing from a free-wheeling free verse to the employment of formal structure. Allen's work ranges with ease from astronomy to politics to domestic situations; his poetry captures great swatches of real and imagined experience in nimble style. The more structured works focus his energies to the best effect. Ironically, structure serves him best when Allen follows Whitman's expansive lead and engages in list-making orcosmic inclusiv </div>

The Day Before: Poems

"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."—BooklistDick 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.

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Looking Ahead: The Vision of Science Fiction

Science Fiction: The Future

Overnight in the Guest House of the Mystic

Overnight in the Guest House of the Mystic: Poems

Crash: The Life and Times of Dick Allen

Ode to the Cold War: Poems New and Selected

This Shadowy Place: Poems

Zen Master Poems (1) (New Wisdom Poems)

Ode to the Cold War: Poems New and Selected

The Day Before: Poems