{"product_id":"this-shadowy-place-dick-allen-9781587318597","title":"This Shadowy Place","description":"Dick Allen's earlier collections have always included poems written in traditional form.\u003cbr\u003eBut\u003ci\u003e This Shadowy Place\u003c\/i\u003e is his only book in which every poem is rhymed and metered.\u003cbr\u003eAllen's \"stand alone\" new poems - narrative, meditative, lyric, sometimes excursions\u003cbr\u003einto Zen Buddhism - consistently merge traditional form with his hallmark cultural, \u003cbr\u003epolitical and religious themes. Even when seeming to write of himself, Allen is actually\u003cbr\u003eforever writing of the strange and unique transitions from the American Twentieth\u003cbr\u003eCentury to the Twenty-first. Known as one of the best craftsmen and poetry performers\u003cbr\u003ein the country, Allen here gives us new poems that when read either silently or aloud\u003cbr\u003econstantly shift between the literal and the metaphorical. The paths in these new poems\u003cbr\u003elead unexpectedly through both calming and foreboding shadows. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDick Allen is the author of seven previous poetry collections, including Present Vanishing, \u003cbr\u003eThe Day Before, and Ode to the Cold War: Poems New and Selected. He's received National\u003cbr\u003eEndowment for the Arts and Ingram Merrill Poetry Writing Fellowships, six inclusions in\u003cbr\u003eThe Best American Poetry annual volumes, a Pushcart Prize, among numerous other national\u003cbr\u003eawards. His poems have appeared regularly in many of America's leading magazines, \u003cbr\u003eincluding \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic, The Georgia Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Hudson Review, The\u003cbr\u003eNew Criterion, The New Yorker, Poetry, The New Republic, Tricycle, Rattle\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe American\u003cbr\u003eScholar\u003c\/i\u003e. Dick Allen was appointed as the Connecticut State Poet Laureate (2010-2015), \u003cbr\u003esucceeding John Hollander. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis Shadowy Place\u003c\/i\u003e is the thirteenth winner of the annual New Criterion Poetry\u003cbr\u003ePrize. Previous winners of the prize include Deborah Warren, Adam Kirsch, Charles\u003cbr\u003eTomlinson, Bill Coyle, Geoffrey Brock, J. Allyn Rosser, Daniel Brown, D.H. Tracy, and, \u003cbr\u003eprior to Allen, George Green. The New Criterion Poetry Prize was established in 2000\u003cbr\u003eand is awarded annually to a book-length manuscript of poems that pays close attention\u003cbr\u003eto form. The series has for many years attracted the attention of both readers and critics, \u003cbr\u003eand Booklist has called\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dick Allen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1587318598\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781587318597\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e St. Augustine's Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/20\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.82h x 5.83w x 0.57d","brand":"Dick Allen","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48485629198591,"sku":"9781587318597","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0ebc04b7-2483-4a94-bd7f-135d8f6e1e3d.jpg?v=1778050496","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/this-shadowy-place-dick-allen-9781587318597","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}