Flight and Pursuit

by Dick Allen

Book by Allen, Dick

Genres: Poetry

64 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1987

About the author

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 The Gettysburg Review.

Reviews

[Brian · Rating 3 out of 5]

Detailed descriptions of scenes from his childhood and later, in what must be his home town, but overall did not really enjoy it. Not my taste, but also a lot of the descriptions just aren't that evocative. Maybe I wasn't in the mood to appreciate them. I made note of a few gems I will keep with me though, like Grandfather's Jigsaw Puzzle, The Poet at Eighteen and Cliff Painting.