Alan Michael Parker: 5 books

In Love Song with Motor Vehicles, Alan Michael Parker marshals a penetrating wit and sharp irony that mirrors that of Charles Simic and John Berryman. Parker’s robust imagination explores the music in places poetry doesn’t usually travel. His poems find their epiphanies early on, and, most strikingly,...

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.

A lyrical and funny look at democracy and bureaucracy, The Committee on Town Happiness consists of ninety-nine linked stories about disappearing townsfolk. Hot air balloons are launched to search for the missing; galas proliferate; laws are imposed ad absurdum; and a guerilla group forms. Absurdity and beauty reign; the Committee shapes this future of small-town America.

Thirteen-year-old Beatrice Danzig has terminal cancer. When her junkie mom checks into rehab, she’s sent to live with her aunt in the quiet suburban town of Saxon Hills, where she fits about as well as her baggy button-down and thrift-store plaid. In honor of her impending death, Beatrice...

The fourth edition of an authoritative overview, with all new chapters that capture the state of the art in a rapidly growing field. Science and Technology Studies (STS) is a flourishing interdisciplinary field that examines the transformative power of science and technology to arrange and...