Alan Michael Parker

The Imaginary Poets

(2005, Tupelo Press)

Edited by Alan Michael Parker

Translate a poem into English, offer a biography of the poet, and then write a short essay in which the poem, the poet, and the corpus are considered-and make all of it up, without once indicating you have done so. Thus charged were the twenty-two contributors to The Imaginary Poets, who in response produced poems "translated" from eighteen languages including Dirja, Vietnamese, Yiddish, and even from Egyptian hieroglyphs, poems that may be read in the grand literary tradition of heteronyms and alter egos. Calling into question the axioms of translation and the use of fiction-in-poetry, The Imaginary Poets offers a glimpse of twenty-two poets in splendid, distorted, carnivalesque self-portraits.

The Imaginary Poets was runner-up for the 2005 Independent Press Publishing Award for Best Anthology.

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Who's Who in 20th Century World Poetry

(2001, Routledge)

Edited by Alan Michael Parker and Mark Willhardt

This scholarly work brings a global perspective to bear on modern verse. A comprehensive volume, Who's Who in Twentieth Century World Poetry provides biographical information on the greatest poets of the 20th century and gives a succint critical account of their work. World-wide in scope, Who's Who in Twentieth Century World Poetry offers introductions to familiar and less familiar contemporary poets from all over the world, among them Iraq's Nazik al-Mala'ika and South Africa's Njabulo Simakahle Ndebele. The volume was edited by Dr. Mark Willhardt; Alan Michael Parker served as Editor for North America.

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The Routeledge Anthology of Cross-Gendered Verse

(1996, Routledge)

Edited by Alan Michael Parker and Mark Willhardt

By presenting old material in a new context, by constructing hitherto unseen genealogies through unexpected conclusions and strategic omissions, anthologies self-consciously construct and revise Literature itself. The Routledge Anthology of Cross-Gendered Verse is an example of anthology-making at its best....

-- The Boston Book Review