Ricky Ricardo Suites Author:Robert Allen In his first book since the novel Napoleon’s Retreat, and his first collection of poems in almost a decade, Robert Allen continues to dazzle with his astonishingly diverse work. Among other things, Ricky Ricardo Suites contains 46 new sections of the long poem The Encantadas‚ which Phil Hall called “...a wondrous poem: dense, lush, hypnotic.