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Dick Allen


Born
in Troy, New York, The United States
August 08, 1939

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Genre
Poetry


Dick Allen is an American poet, literary critic and academic, who is serving a five-year term as poet laureate of the state of Connecticut from July 1, 2010, through June 30, 2015. His book This Shadowy Place received the 2013 The New Criterion Poetry Prize.

Allen has retired from his position as Charles A. Dana Endowed Chair Professor at the University of Bridgeport. He has been co-editor of several anthologies of science fiction and science fiction criticism.

His poems have appeared in journals including Poetry, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, The New Yorker, The Hudson Review, The Sewanee Review, The Massachusetts Review, The American Poetry Review, The Yale Review, The Kenyon Review, Boulevard, The New Criterion, Ploughshares, and ...more

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Average rating: 3.83 · 133 ratings · 30 reviews · 19 distinct works • Similar authors
Zen Master Poems (1) (New W...
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Present Vanishing: Poems
3.79 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2008
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Science Fiction: The Future
3.71 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1971 — 4 editions
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Overnight in the Guest Hous...
3.92 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1984 — 2 editions
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The Day Before: Poems
3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2003
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Ode to the Cold War: Poems ...
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1997 — 3 editions
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This Shadowy Place: Poems
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Flight and Pursuit
3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1987 — 2 editions
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Zen Master Poems (New Wisdo...
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Anon and Various Time Machi...
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1971 — 2 editions
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“You listen to people, you listen so deeply that you can hear their past lives,
The crackle of their funeral pyres,”
― Dick Allen, Zen Master Poems (1)
tags: buddhism, funeral-poems, koan, koans, listen, listening, listening-skills, past-life, past-lives, zen
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“Once upon a time,
there was a Zen sign
at every small railway crossing in America

Stop. Look. And listen.”
― Dick Allen, Zen Master Poems (1)
tags: appreciation, buddhism, humor, humour, life-lessons, life-philosophy, railway, zen
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“The most expected thing you can expect is what's unexpected.”
― Dick Allen, Zen Master Poems (1)
tags: buddhism, life-lessons, life-philosophy, unexpected, zen
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