Poetry. Drawn from fourteen limited edition poetry chapbooks written between 2003 and 2007, this collection exhibits a voice of such clear and fragile eloquence that one hesitates to read too rapidly, lest the words blow away as the page turns. T.L. Kryss compares Frost's book to an elusive melody, something that surprises constantly and seems always just on the verge of disassembly: "Long ago I abandoned any hope of learning the mechanisms behind the nightingale's song. Dissections always killed the bird, and in the end there was nothing to show for it. I will not allow this to happen to the poems of Allen Frost that you now hold in your hands."

Author City: Bellingham, WA USA

Allen Frost was born in La Jolla, California, and graduated from Bowdoin College in Maine. He has lived and worked in the Seattle and Portland area, and in Ohio. He and his wife, Laura, and daughter Rosa live in Bellingham, Washington, where he works in the library of Western Washington University. His books include the novels THE MERMAID TRANSLATION (Bird Dog Publishing, 2010) and OHIO TRIO (Bottom Dog Press, 2001) and the poetry collections HOME RECORDINGS (Bird Dog Publishing, 2009), ANOTHER LIFE: COLLECTED POEMS (Bird Dog Publishing, 2007), and BOWL OF WATER (Bottom Dog Press, 2004).