A stunning follow-up to Allen's award-winning New and Selected. Accessible and profound. "No matter how tactile and specific he is, Allen always retains a sense of the greater world. . . . [H]is pristine poems flow like timelines, drawing unexpected connections between happenings both major and minor, and observations both subtle and life changing."--Booklist Dick Allen has received the Robert Frost Prize for Poetry and The Hart Crane Poetry Prize. His books include Ode to the Cold War, Flight and Pursuit, Overnight in the Guest House of the Mystic, Regions With No Proper Names, and Anon and Various Time Machine Poems. He recently retired from his position as Charles A. Dana Endowed Chair Professor at the University of Bridgeport and lives in Trumbull, Connecticut.
A unique voice in American poetry evocative of Han Shan’s Zen verses, Pablo Neruda’s Book of Questions, and the writings of Jack Kerouac. What a long conversation we never had! All those rivers? we never crossed together. You so busy with your own life, I so busy with mine. Dick Allen, one of the founders of the Expansive Poetry movement, has won the Robert Frost Prize, the Hart Crane Poetry Prize, and the Pushcart Prize—among others. His work has been anthologized five times in the Best American Poetry volumes, and has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Tricycle, The Buddhist Poetry Review, and The American Poetry Review, as well as numerous other publications. He’s a former fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts, and a former Poet Laureate for the state of Connecticut, where he lives and writes.
Among students and aficionados of contemporary literature, the work of Latina and Latino poets holds a particular fascination. Through works imbued with fire and passion, these writers have kindled new enthusiasm in their compatriots and admiration in non-Latino readers. This book brings together recent interviews with fifteen Latino/a poets, a cross-section of Chicano, Puerto Rican, and Cuban voices who discuss not only their work but also related issues that help define their place in American literature. Each talks at length about the craft of his or her poetry—both the influences and the process behind it—and takes a stand on social and political issues affecting Latinos across the United States. The interviews feature both established writers published as early as the 1960s and emerging artists, each of whom has enjoyed success in other literary forms also. As Bruce Dick's insightful questions reveal, the key threads linking these writers are their connections to their families and communities and their concern for civil rights—believing like Chicana writer Pat Mora that "the work of the poet is for the people." The interviews also reveal diversity among and within the three communities, from Victor Hernández Cruz, who traces Latino collective identity to Africa and claims that all Latinos are "swimming in olive oil," to Cuban writer Gustavo Perez Firmat, who considers nationality more important than ethnicity and says that "the term Latino erases [his] nationality." The dialogues also offer new insights on the place of Chicano/a writings in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, on the Puerto Rican/Nuyorican establishment, and on the anti-Castro stand of Cuban-born poets. As these writers answer questions about their work, background, ethnic identity, and political ideology, they provide a wealth of biographical, intellectual, and literary material collected here for the first time. A Poet's Truth is a provocative and revealing book that not only conveys the fire of these writers' passions but also sheds important light on a whole literary movement. Interviews with: Miguel Algarín Martín Espada Sandra María Esteves Victor Hernández Cruz Carolina Hospital and Carlos Medina Demetria Martínez Pat Mora Judith Ortiz Cofer Ricardo Pau-Llosa Gustavo Pérez Firmat Leroy Quintana Aleida Rodríguez Luis Rodríguez Benjamin Alire Sáenz Virgil Suárez
Paperback Quarterly, Fall 1982, Volume 5 Number 3, contains: "Remembering Ellery Queen," by Angela Andrews, "The Paperback Hall of Fame of Miscellaneous Curiosities, Part II: Cover/Printing Variations," by Daniel G. Roberts, "Vardis Fisher and His Books," by M. C. Hill, "Reprints/Reprints: The Hound of the Baskervilles," by Bill Henderson, "The Paperback Originals of Philip K. Dick," by Don Z. Block and "More on P. K. Dick," by Shawn Loudermilk.
Pearls of wisdom and downright funny lines are bountiful in Dick Enberg's Humorous Quotes for All Occasions. Public speaking tops the list of things people fear most--above fear of snakes, falling, or even death. But Dick Enberg has the antidote. With 28 general subjects to choose from, you're bound to find just the right line to loosen your tongue and break the ice on any occasion. As baby boomers increasingly are faced with occasion for public speaking--graduations, weddings, retirement parties, anniversaries of all sorts--Dick Enberg's book will no doubt become the book of choice. Laced with humorous personal anecdotes about Enberg's own public speaking experiences throughout the years, the book is both an entertaining read and a resource of humorous material for specific occasions. It also includes technical tips on how to quickly and efficiently put together a successful humorous talk. Dick Enberg's Humorous Quotes for All Occasions will pave the way toward making the speaker and his or her audience perfectly at ease and ready for a good time.
ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION (1959): “ ... The Triumph Company has apparently always been in a hurry to get from one place to another. It began as a manufacturer of cycles back in the leisurely days of 1895. Triumph had established an excellent reputation for its motorcycles. Before World War I they had earned the rather apt sobriquet: “Frisky.” One can well imagine that with speedy, reliable motorcycles tooling about the countryside making a name for themselves, a light car would loom next on the horizon for Triumph. This was exactly the case. In 1931, the Triumph Cycle Company, having at last decided that they were in the automobile business for good, shortened their name to The Triumph Company...” The legendary TR series of sports cars, competition results, tuning and maintenance for everyday and racing.
A Road Beyond the Suffering contains moving letters written back and forth between husband and wife, Dick and Sue Rader. After their missionary career in Africa was cut short due to Sue's lengthy illness, their twenty years of marriage slowly began to unravel as they tried to adjust to their new lifestyle in America. In these letters about Job, Dick and Sue express their inner struggles with God's goodness, justice, and power in the context of their own life-changing experiences. Through writing to each other, Dick and Sue not only discovered that God is persistently trying "to turn back his (man's) soul from the pit, that the light of life may shine on him" (Job 33:30), but they also found that God was healing their relationship with each other.
More than 25 of the greatest Science Fiction stories ever written many in book form for the very first time. More than four hundred pages of top flight fiction selected by the editors at www.fantasticstoriesoftheimagination.com Ticking by Allen M. Steele, All Cats are Gray by Andre Norton, The Velvet Glove by Harry Harrison, The Day of the Boomer Dukes by Frederic Pohl, The Troubadour by Peter Sherman, Riya's Foundling by Algis Budrys, Asleep in the Forest of the Tall Cats by Ken Brady, Stairway to the Stars by Larry Shaw, Nightmare on the Nose by Evelyn E. Smith, Ask A Foolish Question by Robert Sheckley, Earthlight by Bryce Walton, The Maiden Mechanical by Brenda W. Clough, Nightmare Planet by Murray Leinster, Regeneration by Charles Dye, Exile from Space by Judith Merril, Flight From Tomorrow by H. Beam Piper, Dignity by Jay O'Connell, Contagion by Katherine MacLEAN, Suite Mentale by Randall Garrett, The Slizzers by Jerome Bixby, The Fourth Invasion bBy Henry Josephs, Genesis by H. Beam Piper, The Hills of Home by Alfred Coppel, Sentiment, Inc. by Poul Anderson, This World Must Die! by H. B. Fyfe, Death Between the Stars by Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Eyes Have It by Philip K. Dick, Song in a Minor Key by C. L. Moore, Fridays by Jamie Wild
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