Book Description
In his first book since the novel Napoleons Retreat, and his first collection of poems in almost a decade, Robert Allen continues to dazzle with his astonishingly diverse work. Among other things, Ricky Ricardo Suites contains 46 new sections of the long poem The Encantadas which Phil Hall called ...a wondrous poem: dense, lush, hypnotic."
About the Author
British born and raised in England, Canada, and the United States, Robert Allen is the author of a number of books of poetry and fiction, including Magellan's Clouds, The Indigo Hotel, Wintergarden, The Hawryliw Process, Blues & Ballads, A June Night in the Late Cenozoic, and Napoleon's Retreat. Robert Allen is the editor of Matrix and for many years served as the director of the Concordia creative writing program.