In a message dated 2/15/2012 4:16:16 PM Central Standard Time, stevenorquist@GMAIL.COM writes:


R S Gwynn refers to 67 Mixed Messages. Since the Wikipedia "bio" on Ed Allen appears to be, in some respects, a joke by Ed himself to illustrate his view of the internet as a "giant bathroom graffiti wall," here's Dr. Allen's real autobiographical info: http://ahsahtapress.boisestate.edu/books/allen/allen-bio.htm

The publisher asked me to blurb Ed Allen's book.  I'd never heard of him but thought the complex sonnet sequence (we're talking complex here!) was worthy of praise, which I has happy to give.  The book recounts a very Nabokovian obsession of poet with unexpected "muse," even though the poet himself is a little uncertain about his own sexual orientation.

Here's the "afterstory":

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2011/09/poet-and-publisher-sued-by-sonnet-subject-in-south-dakota/
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