Dick Allen's earlier collections have always included poems written in traditional form.
But This Shadowy Place is his only book in which every poem is rhymed and metered.
Allen's "stand alone" new poems - narrative, meditative, lyric, sometimes excursions
into Zen Buddhism - consistently merge traditional form with his hallmark cultural,
political and religious themes. Even when seeming to write of himself, Allen is actually
forever...
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