The
Precincts of Paradise, Poems by Allen Hoey
Allen
Hoey’s The Precincts of Paradise
is a book of surface serenity, but beneath the poems’ contemplations
are churning depths, restless investigations of ideas that plumb the
felt and lived cores of experience itself.
Sample Poems by Allen Hoey
Praise for Allen Hoey's Work
“The directness of Allen Hoey’s poems amounts at times almost
to a kind of existential obduracy, the smack of a fist in the palm that
means: no more bravery, the job is being. Being in the world. When you
put this together with Hoey’s marvelous vocabulary and his exacting
rhymthic and tonal demands on our language, you get what no academic
poetry can ever attain, real pertinence. Nowadays all of us are reading
for our lives, I think. These poems are what we need.”—Hayden
Carruth
Allen Hoey was born in Kingston, New York. His first collection, A
Fire in the Cold House of Being, was chosen by Galway Kinnell
for the 1985 Camden Poetry Award and was published in 1987; What
Persists, his second full-length volume of poems, was issued
in 1992; and Provençal Light
was released in 2005 by FootHills Publishing. Other publications
include Transfigured Autumn, a selection of translations of
Georg Trakl’s poems, and Work the Tongue Could Understand:
Sonnets. He currently teaches at Bucks County Community College
and makes his home in New Hope, Pennsylvania. He was 2001 Bucks County
Poet Laureate and received a 2002 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship.
ISBN 1933456108, 108 pages, $17.00