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Elephants & Butterflies (American Poets Continuum) Paperback – June 1, 2008

by Alan Michael Parker (Author)

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Elephants & Butterflies combines the imaginative forays of The Vandals with the more meditative approach of Love Song with Motor Vehicles. Both wild and calm, boisterous and quiet, the poems in Elephants & Butterflies use surprise, song, and startling metaphor while allowing the ideas to simmer just below the surface of the lyric. The poems manage the difficult task of being highly readable and accessible, while still containing complex philosophical and personal knowledge.

Alan Michael Parker (www.amparker.com) teaches at Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina. He also teaches at Queens University, where he is core faculty in the low-residency MFA program.

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Alan Michael Parker (www.amparker.com) is the author of five collections of poems including The Vandals (BOA, 1999), and Love Song with Motor Vehicles (BOA, 2003). He is editor of The Imaginary Poets, co-editor of The Routledge Anthology of Cross-Gendered Verse, and Editor for North America of Who's Who in 20th Century World Poetry.

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Series: American Poets Continuum (Book 111)
Paperback: 92 pages
Publisher: BOA Editions Ltd. (June 1, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1934414050
ISBN-13: 978-1934414057
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.3 x 9 inches
Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,542,086 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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By Mary Barnard on May 2, 2013

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After taking an AMP workshop, I settled in with his book of 36 gem-like poems. His writing is equally as entertaining as his teaching. He signed my copy with this: Happy, sad poems. His poems are cogent and surprising, they originate from a fresh and individual point of view. Whe he writes about a shoe in "Larkinesque", I get the idea that he has laid his head on the ground to write from shoe level. His acute observation is stunning. The result is a mix of poems to suit a mix of moods.

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