{"product_id":"scenarios-for-a-mixed-landscape-john-allman-9780811209892","title":"Scenarios for a Mixed Landscape: Poetry","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eScenarios for a Mixed Landscape, \u003c\/em\u003e John Allman's third collection of poems, is a book as remarkable for its lyricism as it is for its capaciousness, for there seems to be no area of thought, no branch of learning, no dark region of the mind into which the poet is unwilling to delve. His recent \u003cem\u003eClio's Children: Dostoevsky at Semyonov Square and Other Poems\u003c\/em\u003e is a reminder, as the title implies, that history is a narrative art. In his newest book, Allman reflects on art and nature, love and death--the dualities that animate our common humanity. The poems in \u003cem\u003eScenarios for a Mixed Landscape\u003c\/em\u003e look back, at one level, to the mutable, mythic cosmos of Ovid as well as Lucretius' universe of benign random change. But to these ancient considerations Allman brings the insights, indeed the language of modern science and evolution, creating a speculative aesthetic appropriate to the awesome possibilities of the atomic age.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I would say,\" Allman observes, \"that \u003cem\u003eScenarios for a Mixed Landscape\u003c\/em\u003e is about nature; that the poems speak in the complementary idioms of art and science in an attempt to comprehend nature; that love recapitulates all life forms; and that love, finally, is the only ground we stand on, the only steadiness beneath us, earned by us, yet strangely given, as we sing of glory and grief.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Allman's previous books of poems are \u003cem\u003eWalking Four Ways in the Wind\u003c\/em\u003e (Princeton University Press, 1979) and \u003cem\u003eClio's Children\u003c\/em\u003e (New Directions, 1985). He is a professor of English at Rockland Community College, State University of New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Allman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 081120989X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780811209892\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/17\/1986\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 68\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.57lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.18h x 5.33w x 0.28d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/08\/1986","brand":"John Allman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44149199208703,"sku":"9780811209892","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2e1ee210-7119-412d-bbfd-8a7af615d0b0.jpg?v=1688455372","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/scenarios-for-a-mixed-landscape-john-allman-9780811209892","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}