Alan Michael Parker is the author of two novels, including the forthcoming Whale Man and Cry Uncle, along with five collections of poems, Days Like Prose, The Vandals, Love Song with Motor Vehicles, A Peal of Sonnets, and most recently, Elephants & Butterflies. He is also the editor of The Imaginary Poets and co-editor of two other volumes of scholarship.
Pablo Medina’s most recent book is an English language version of Garcia Lorca’s Poet in New York, which he translated with Mark Statman and which John Ashbery called “the definitive version of Lorca’s masterpiece, in language that is as alive and molten today as was the original.” Medina’s last novel, The Cigar Roller, was a Book Sense Notable for 2005. He is also the author of five books of poetry, Pork Rind and Cuban Songs, Arching into the Afterlife, The Floating Island, Puntos de apoyo (in Spanish), and Points of Balance, and a memoir, Exiled Memories: A Cuban Childhood.
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