\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cP\u003e\u003cI\u003eIn Love Song with Motor Vehicles\u003c/I\u003e, Alan Michael Parker marshals a penetrating wit and sharp irony that mirrors that of Charles Simic and John Berryman. Parker\u0026rsquo;s robust imagination explores the music in places poetry doesn\u0026rsquo;t usually travel. His poems find their epiphanies early on, and, most strikingly, do not close at their endings but, rather, open.\u003c/P\u003e\u003cP\u003e\u003cB\u003eAlan Michael Parker \u003c/B\u003eis the author of two books of poetry, and co-editor of two scholarly works, \u003cI\u003eThe Routledge Anthology of Cross-Gendered Verse \u003c/I\u003eand \u003cI\u003eWho\u0026rsquo;s Who in 20th Century World Poetry \u003c/I\u003e(Routledge Books). In 2000, his poems were included in all three major volumes of \"younger American poets\" (Carnegie Mellon University Press, University of Southern Illinois Press, and University of New England Press).\u003c/P\u003e\u003c/div\u003e
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