{"product_id":"love-song-with-motor-vehicles","title":"Love Song with Motor Vehicles","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eLove Song with Motor Vehicles\u003c\/em\u003e, 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 -- \"Driving Past My Exit,\" \"The Screened Porch,\" \"Salmon Seen from Above,\" \"On the Red-Eye.\" His poems find their epiphanies early on, and, most strikingly, do not close at their endings but, rather, open. The book includes a series titled \"The Penates.\" These poems take as their subjects the household gods Aeneas brought with him from Troy to the founding of Rome. But the poems have a twist: the various gods -- of steel wool, draperies, brooms -- have been updated, dragged into our culture and time. The result is a post-modern riff upon present-day spirituality in relation to mythology. Parker's poem \"The Cat,\" published in \u003cem\u003eLove Song with Motor Vehicles\u003c\/em\u003e, won the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. \"Love Song with Motor Vehicles is full of, among other things, gods. But what surprising gods they are, with their strange questions, sad visions, and circumscribed domains that never stay circumscribed. Like all of Parker's brilliant books, this one is serious fun, made of grace and intelligent good spirit.\" --Andrew Hudgins\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eSigned copies available in limited supply\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBurn \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat I remember is not what happened,\u003cbr\u003enot the pain from the burn but later,\u003cbr\u003ethe baths five times a day.\u003cbr\u003eTroy burned too, I would say from the tub\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ewhere I read. And the temple.\u003cbr\u003eMy cousin came and sat with me.\u003cbr\u003eWho knew she was a girl?\u003cbr\u003eOf course, this was before my parents\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ewere people, when they were just parents.\u003cbr\u003eBefore Kant arrived. Keats.\u003cbr\u003eSometimes childhood seems like\u003cbr\u003ea path at night, the flashlight beam\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ebouncing all over the trees. \u003cbr\u003eWhy must the past be a metaphor?\u003cbr\u003eHow redundant, when every word\u003cbr\u003eis already something else.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere were soft cookies.\u003cbr\u003eWhat terror I felt\u003cbr\u003eI saved in a specimen jar\u003cbr\u003efor later, for you, for now.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e© BOA Editions, Ltd 2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAvailable editions: \u003cbr\u003e-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- \u003cbr\u003ePaperback ISBN: 1-929918-35-6\u003cbr\u003ePrice: $13.95\u003cbr\u003ePublishing Date: April 2003\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":8418651461,"sku":"1929918356","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback (Signed)","offer_id":12467777306705,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/LOVE_SONG_WITH_MOTOR.jpg?v=1527683293","url":"https:\/\/shop.boaeditions.org\/products\/love-song-with-motor-vehicles","provider":"Boa Editions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}