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The New Criterion

It operates as a refuge for a civilizing element in short supply in contemporary America: honest criticism
- The Wall Street Journal

Author

Dick Allen

Dick Allen's new volume of poems, Present Vanishing, has won the 2009 Connecticut Book Award for Poetry.

Articles

"To be with a koan" (Poems) , November 2012, 28

Beating a dead horse (Poems) , March 2011, 29

Killjoys (Poems) , March 2011, 30

Back of the hand (Poems) , November 2009, 26

Taking the bull by the horns (Poems) , October 2008, 29

“On tenterhooks” (Poems) , May 2006, 28
A new poem.

France (Poems) , February 2002, 33

Ferns (Poems) , November 1996, 31

Homefront (Poems) , March 1992, 50

The familiar (Poems) , October 1987, 50

The bookshop (Poems) , June 1986, 42

Cities & empires (Poems) , October 1985, 54




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