Once Upon a Time at Blanche's Author:Allen Hoey Once Upon a Time at Blanche's creates a microcosm in a small bar that caters to middle-aged farmers and mill workers. In dialogues that consist, as Nathalie Anderson noted, of "half scatology, half philosophy," the young observer of the poems records a swath of rural concerns that spill into and reflect the larger social and political concerns o... more »f the mid-1970s-concerns that remain relevant to the world today.« less