Robert Allen
Description
In his first book since the novel Napoleonís Retreat, and his first collection of poems in almost a decade, Robert Allen continues to dazzle with his
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astonishingly diverse work. Among other things, Ricky Ricardo Suites contains 46 new sections of the long poem ëThe Encantadas,í which Phil Hall called ì...a wondrous poem: dense, lush, hypnotic.î
Critical Comment
ìIn his first poetry collection since Magellanís Clouds, New and Selected Poems (1990, Vehicule Press, Signal Editions), Allen writes clear and provocative poems on a range of subjects, casually observing Errol Flynnís cock, getting cable, conversations of what Al Purdy could get away with, Ricky Ricardo, and on the birth of western music.î
ó The Antigonish Review, 2002
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