Elephants Butterflies combines the imaginative forays of The Vandalswith the more meditative approach of Love Song with Motor Vehicles. Both wildand calm boist... » 

Elephants Butterflies combines the imaginative forays of The Vandalswith the more meditative approach of Love Song with Motor Vehicles. Both wildand calm boisterous and quiet the poems in Elephants Butterflies usesurprise song and startling metaphor while allowing the ideas to simmer justbelow the surface of the lyric. The poems manage the difficult task of beinghighly readable and accessible while still containing complex philosophicaland personal knowledge.Alan Michael Parker www.amparker.com teaches atDavidson College in Davidson North Carolina. He also teaches at QueensUniversity where he is core faculty in the lowresidency MFA program. «