About Allen Hoey
Allen Hoey was an American poet, novelist, and literary critic who received numerous honors during his lifetime, including a Pulitzer Prize nomination for his 2008 collection of poems Country Music. Hoey has two sons by his first marriage, Owen (1980) and Stephen (1984). His first collection, A Fire in the Cold House of Being, was selected by Galway Kinnell as winner of the 1985 Camden Poetry Award. Not an easy thing to do, but the memorable story in poetry always begins there." Poet David Dooley remarked about his second collection of poems, What Persists: "Allen Hoey's What Persists takes a leap beyond his own fine first book. The first of these novels, On the Demon's Trail, was published in March, 2009.
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