Describing this collection of his poems, John Allman writes, "It is a book about the inner and outer worlds, a collection of multiple voices and relationships. In one sense it is about suffering, family, and survival. However, it is also about a world beyond such things, where identity burns by itself, where the self-changes but never dies. The book says that only change happens, but that survival without will and compassion is meaningless. The title, taken from a line in one of the book's ritual lyrics, suggests the four dimensions of human consciousness and effort, and the book strives to name or embody as many landscapes as possible--though it is the 'vertical' one given to religion and death that remains an abiding puzzle." Originally published in 1979. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Product Description: John Allman's prose poems in Algorithms go forth in a kind of wanderjahr to discover or be discovered. These prose poems possess a different kind of urgency, a vitality that almost defies boundaries, a freedom to span discourses and leap across vocabularies...read more

Product Description: A moving and eloquent new collection of poetry celebrating Allman's winter home in South Carolina. Jon Allman's new collection Lowcountry is a hymn to nature, as experience during his winter stays in the rich and verdant Southern coastal region known as the Low Country, stretching from Charleston to Savannah...read more

Product Description: In Loew's Triboro, John Allman's fourth collection of poems with New Directions, the poet recalls the movie palace in Astoria, Queens--one of the five boroughs of New York City--and its centrality to the lives and fantasies of the people in the neighborhood...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Poems convey the art and science of the world of physics, chemistry, biology, planets and principles

Poems deal with nature, science, love, angels, bullfights, art, mythology, time, and mortality

Poems portray scenes from the lives of historical figures such as Frederick Douglass, Marie Curie, Ezra Pound, and Emma Goldman

Poems portray scenes from the lives of historical figures such as Frederick Douglass, Marie Curie, Ezra Pound, and Emma Goldman