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    Elephants & Butterflies
    Elephants & Butterflies
    Elephants & Butterflies
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    Elephants & Butterflies

    By Alan Michael Parker

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    Parker is a savvy and charismatic promoter of his work and has many connections in the literary world. His reviews and poetry have appeared in, among other places, The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Having published books with BOA and Tupelo Press (among others), the reps and some of their accounts should be familiar with Parker.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBOA Editions Ltd.
    Release dateJun 1, 2008
    ISBN9781934414996
    Elephants & Butterflies
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    Alan Michael Parker

    Alan Michael Parker is the author of four novels, eight books of poetry, and editor of five scholarly works. Douglas C. Houchens Professor of English at Davidson College and faculty in the University of Tampa M.F.A. Program, he has received numerous awards and fellowships, including two selections for Best American Poetry, three Pushcart Prizes, the Fineline Prize, the 2013 and the 2014 Randall Jarrell Award, the Lucille Medwick Award, and the North Carolina Book Award. He has recently been called “a general beacon of brilliance” by Time Out, New York.

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