{"product_id":"the-vandals","title":"The Vandals","description":"\u003cp\u003e\r\n\tThe vandals stomp \"inoutinoutintoutinout\" of these poems, emerging–as if on cue–to toss monkey wrenches nto the machinery of life. The result is occasionally disturbing and often hilarious, a mirror held up to our culture of excess. \"Thirty years ago when Dylan told us 'the pump don't work 'cause the vandals took the handle,' who could know they'd be reconstellated here, with all their sweet weirdness and fierce wisdom, in Alan Michael Parker's remarkable and brilliant new collection of poems. When these vandals amd this poet sing, I make myself stop to listen.\" –David St. John\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\t\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t\u003cstrong\u003eVandals, Horses\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tThe vandals are dreaming, wolves are dreaming, \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tThe horses are staked to their deaths. \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tIn the poem of the vandals dreaming \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tA word bites through a lip, \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tDrawing blood. (The poem is in ruins.)\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tThe vandals dream that their arms unseen,\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tDream themselves buried in the belly \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tOf the birthing mare, as a foal is \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tTorn to life. (The poem is banal\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tAs the barn is bloody.) \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tAnd you and I, and you and I, we steal\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tEach other's blankets, wrap ourselve\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\ts In darkness, wind, in anything \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tThe night will let us, to feel safe.\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tDo you feel safe? (Soft,\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tThe vandals sleep.) Because a word\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tIs a dream of its meaning, you and I \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tMust dream the vandals dreaming:\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tSoft, the horses nicker in the barn. \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t(Soft, our poem begins as vandals dream.)\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\n\t\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t© BOA Editions, Ltd 1999\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tAvailable editions: \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tPaperback ISBN: 1-880238-74-8\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tPrice: $14.00 \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tPublishing Date: May 1999\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":8419234885,"sku":"1880238748","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/THE_VANDALS.jpg?v=1527683616","url":"https:\/\/shop.boaeditions.org\/products\/the-vandals","provider":"Boa Editions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}