Summary:

I telephoned a poet-friend long distance just to read him some poems
from this first book by Paul Allen, the winner of the Vassar Miller
Prize in Poetry. Here is a voice so matter-of-fact in its strength
and grittiness that the stark subjects in many of the poems are all
the more stunning for their dauntless presentation. The poem "Letting
the Rabbit Scream" has the mood of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, but
with chilling rationale. "The Man with the Hardest Belly" depicts
brutal reality in a paraplegic preacher's call to faith, a family's
quotidian reaction. These poems make no pretense of manipulating the
emotions they evoke.

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Dewey Class: 811.54 -- Poetry

Book Details:

Physical Description: 6.0"x9.0"x0.3"; 0.4 lb; 73 pages
Edition Info: Paperback; 1997-02

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