Elephants & Butterflies

Alan Michael Parker
98 pages (2008); 604KB download
BOA Editions; ISBN: 978-1-934414-05-7

DESCRIPTION

"All through 'Elephants & Butterflies', Alan Michael Parker chases metaphysical questions with a combinatin of whimsy, hominess, and subtle urgency. If the soul is broken, if God has checked out, if people suffer needlessly, Parker responds in poems half tuned to the imagination, half to the raw prosiness of life — or, as he suggests, half to the comics, half to the news. He writes a language of gleeful inventiveness, utterly unpretentious, and distinctly American in tune and tone." — Rosanna Warren.