The Day Before

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Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2003-04-01
Publisher(s): Sarabande Books
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Summary

"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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi
"And Leave My Human Feelings..." xv
ONE
A Boy Called Vanish
3(1)
Homefront
4(2)
Triptych
6(4)
The Father Suite
Steady as She Goes
10(3)
Heart Condition
13(1)
Breath
14(1)
Those Who Are Surpassed
15(3)
Bishop Eyes
18(11)
"God Gives to Every Bird..."
20(2)
After Reading Tichhorne's Elegy
22(3)
The Children
25
TWO
Zen Living
29(1)
Intuition
30(1)
In Wyeth Country
31(1)
Rime Forest
32(2)
Ferns
34(2)
Strip Malls
36(1)
Quiet, Quiet Now
37(1)
The Simile
38(1)
The Green Children
39(2)
The American Zen Master
41(3)
Cassandra in Connecticut
44(1)
April
45(2)
The Selfishness of the Poetry Reader
47(2)
The Devotion of Thomas Merton
49(2)
Memo from the Desk of Wallace Stevens:
51(2)
Vehicle
53(4)
THREE
The Familiar
57(1)
On Roark's Farm
58(2)
Letter to One Who May Be Dead or Not
60(2)
Urban Pastoral
62(3)
Sunday
65(1)
A Shadowy Government Agency
66(2)
Some Man I Knew
68(3)
The Back of God
71(1)
Animus
72(1)
After a Proverb by William Blake
73(1)
[Say We Have to Name the World Again]
74(1)
If You Get There Before I Do
75(3)
Then
78(3)
FOUR
The Cove
81(2)
The Day Before Yesterday
83(4)
Lost Friends
87(3)
Being Taught
90(3)
Jubilate
93(2)
Letter to Ye Feng, His Student Now in Iowa
95(2)
Poem for Li, in Her White Bridal Dress
97(2)
Texas Prison Town
99(3)
Man of the Cloth
102(2)
Although the Temporal Is Beautiful
104(2)
Poem for My Sixtieth Birthday
106(3)
The Litany of Disparagement
109(2)
This Far
111(4)
The Author
115

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