{"title":"Allen Smuckler","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"unknown-journey-book-allen-smuckler-9781475981537","title":"Unknown Journey","description":"\u003cp\u003eUnknown Journey is a book of poetry with many varied conceptions; soothing, warming, and cooling on one hand, chaotic, fearful, and desolate on the other. It strides aside me on occasion in the inner counsel of evermore, healing my wounds and motivating me to be more . see more . do more .This book of poetry . progresses from youthful hopefulness, crawls through the land of discovery and spans the decades from the tumultuous 60's to the tenuous present not just for Boomers, but for all to read.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e-Becky Corinne Strukamp, freelance writer and poet\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis book is like walking with you hand in hand on a journey. Thinking back . being here . then casting a look to the future. Allen's writing will touch your heart, as it always does mine .\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e-Lily Mae O'Connor, poet and author\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAllen passes the dreams of his generation to the next souls in our line, that they may carry with them his enduring love for a life, sweet, gentle and divine.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e-Tate Morgan, poet and author\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51212297765137,"sku":"NIN9781475981537","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52353801126161,"sku":"NLS9781475981537","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1475981538.jpg?v=1750795171"},{"product_id":"unknown-journey-book-allen-smuckler-9781475981513","title":"Unknown Journey","description":"\u003cp\u003eUnknown Journey is a book of poetry with many varied conceptions; soothing, warming, and cooling on one hand, chaotic, fearful, and desolate on the other. It strides aside me on occasion in the inner counsel of evermore, healing my wounds and motivating me to be more . see more . do more .This book of poetry . progresses from youthful hopefulness, crawls through the land of discovery and spans the decades from the tumultuous 60's to the tenuous present not just for Boomers, but for all to read.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e-Becky Corinne Strukamp, freelance writer and poet\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis book is like walking with you hand in hand on a journey. Thinking back . being here . then casting a look to the future. Allen's writing will touch your heart, as it always does mine .\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e-Lily Mae O'Connor, poet and author\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAllen passes the dreams of his generation to the next souls in our line, that they may carry with them his enduring love for a life, sweet, gentle and divine.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e-Tate Morgan, poet and author\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51212321194257,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51212324077841,"sku":"NIN9781475981513","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52352526647569,"sku":"NLS9781475981513","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1475981511.jpg?v=1750715795"},{"product_id":"missing-moments-book-allen-smuckler-9780578188423","title":"Missing Moments","description":"This book of poems divides up well into six parts. To a degree the reader finds a poetic growth from adolescent to adult, although I find it difficult not to admire some facet of each poem. What I do note about myself as a reader is that I want to read the next poem, I want to continue in the world of imagination and reality that the poet offers in a frank and often powerful way. As with almost any poet, there are phrases and images that stand out, and comments about life that strike the reader's conscience. This latter moment is when I find myself smiling at the words in front of me. These are the moments that Allen Smuckler molds images of his life into a memorable figure; these are the moments for which I recommend this work. At times I think the poet lives too much in the mundane clich s of everyday life - and yet that is what makes the collection valid, for the poems do not shy away from telling truths about life. Rhyme, alliteration and other literary techniques are to be found amid Smuckler's lines, yet it is their usage that proves the poet a wiser man than most, a keener observer of relationships that bind him to his personal world. From the chuckles I yield when reading Remote, yes the television remote, to the undeniable revelations of Fences, the poet's honesty must strike the reader with a wish to re-read a poem; the urge to continue reading Missing Moments does not fade. Even the brutal thoughts within Squirrel intrigue rather than repulse me; even the simplicity of some of the early poems elicit the truths from youthfulness. This volume holds its own among the loose abstractions of the latest poetic publications. 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