Days Like Prose

Days Like Prose, Alan Michael Parker s debut poetry collection, was originally published by Alef Books in 1997. It was named a Notable Book of the Year by the National Book Critics Circle. Publishers Weekly described it as a book of stirring, quiet beauty. And Richard Wilbur wrote, "This is an arresting first book; it gives us a poetry deep in particular moments and eloquently alert to the world's curious and agitated detail. Alan Michael Parker's poems are full, as poems should be, of surprises which turn out to be simply true." This 2019 edition includes all of the original poems, freshly typeset and designed, as well as a new preface. Fan of Parker will prize this volume to complete their collections of his work, and readers who have not yet discovered Parker will have the pleasure of beginning at his beginning.