The day before : new poems / Dick Allen.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Allen, Dick, 1939-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Louisville, KY : Sarabande Books, c2003.
Edition:1st ed.
Online Access:Publisher description
Table of Contents:
  • Vehicle
  • A boy called Vanish
  • Homefront
  • Triptych
  • The father suite
  • Bishop eyes
  • God gives to every bird
  • After reading Tichborne's elegy
  • The familiar
  • Some man I knew
  • Ballade of the protester
  • Two friends meet in the Slate Mountains
  • The pardon of Richard Milhouse Nixon
  • Letter from one who may be dead or not
  • Urban pastoral
  • Below Hoover Dam
  • Animus
  • Sunday
  • [Say we have to name the world again]
  • If you get there before I do
  • Then
  • Intuition
  • In Wyeth country
  • Rime forest
  • Ferns
  • Strip malls
  • Quiet, quiet now
  • The simile
  • The green children
  • Cassandra in Connecticut
  • April
  • The selfishness of the poetry reader
  • The devotion of Thomas Merton
  • Memo from the desk of Wallace Stevens
  • The children
  • The rug pulled out from under you
  • The cove
  • Lost friends
  • The day before yesterday
  • In the gunfight with myself
  • The dusk traveller
  • Being taught
  • Jubilante
  • Letter to Ye Feng, his student now in Iowa
  • Poem for Li, in her white bridal dress
  • Although the temporal is beautiful
  • Poem for my 60th birthday
  • The litany of disparagement
  • This far.