Alan Michael Parker. A Peal of Sonnets, August 1, 2006. (5" X 12")
Printed on dampened Somerset paper, set from Perpetua types, in an edition of 125 copies. Binding designed expressly by C. Mikal Oness, Jill Krase, and Z. Cody Lee Carlsen, executed by Jill Krase at Ovenbird Bindery. $175



In the ringing of the changes, a 'peal' consists of seven church bells rung in every order possible, that is, 5040 rings....

from A Peal of Sonnets

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About the Poet



Alan Michael Parker is the author of a novel, Cry Uncle, and three books of poems,Days Like Prose, The Vandals, and Love Song with Motor Vehicles. He is also editor of The Imaginary Poets, co-editor of The Routledge Anthology of Cross-Gendered Verse, and Editor for North America of Who's Who in 20th Century World Poetry. His poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Kenyon Review, The New Republic, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Pleiades, and The Yale Review, among other magazines; his prose appears regularly in publications including The New York Times Book Review and The New Yorker.

The recipient of a Pushcart Prize, and fellowships from the Arts and Science Council, the Eastern Frontier Society, the MacDowell Colony, and the Seaside Institute, Alan Michael Parker teaches at Davidson College, where he is Director of Creative Writing, and at Queens University, where he is a Core Faculty member in the low-residency M.F.A. program.