Off the Road Poetry 1989-2000: Poetry 1989-2000

by Johnny Dolphin

The poems in Off the Road tell the story of a man has chosen to embrace life--firmly--understanding full well that that means embracing the challenges and failures along with the successes and rewards. Because the man is Johnny Dolphin (otherwise known as John Allen), a man who has traveled around the world, fathered scientific concepts (including Biosphere 2) and artistic concepts (including Caravan of Dreams Theater), and whose friends run the gamut...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0907791301
• ISBN13: 9780907791300
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: Synergetic Press
• Length: 158 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

A superbly crafted and presented compendium

Johnny Dolphin is the pen name of poet, playwright, savant, inventor John Allen, who is also the co-founder of the world's largest laboratory for global ecology, Biosphere 2. Off The Road is a superbly crafted and presented compendium of the best of his verse and a "must" for all of his fans within and without the environmental movement. Aphorism Sequence: A philosophy is a shadow of a man./A philosopher, a shadower of himself.//A work of art, a mirror of a man./An artist, an image of himself.//An adventure is a search of a man./An adventurer, a gesture of himself.//A poem is a vision of a man./A poet, a metaphor of himself.//A piece of science, an experiment of a man./A scientist, an experience of himself.//But who has ever seen a man? Seldom do we see/even a shadow, an image, a gesture, a metaphor,/an experience of himself.//Only off the road: an appearance of a man./Way the hell off any road: an emanation of himself.