By Alan Michael Parker
Elephants & Butterflies combines the imaginitive forays of The Vandals with the extra meditative technique of Love music with Motor Vehicles. either wild and calm, boisterous and quiet, the poems in Elephants & Butterflies use shock, track, and startling metaphor whereas permitting the information to simmer slightly under the outside of the lyric. The poems deal with the tough activity of being hugely readable and available, whereas nonetheless containing advanced philosophical and private knowledge.
Alan Michael Parker (www.amparker.com) teaches at Davidson collage in Davidson, North Carolina. He additionally teaches at Queens collage, the place he's center college within the low-residency MFA program.
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