The Butterfly Garden: And 12 Other Poems of the Year - Paperback

by Wayne K. Chapman (Author)

A collection of poetry is essentially a butterfly garden wherein one might reduce the impact of habitat degradation and
increase the migration of butterflies. Just as reading is said to be a journey, living memory is also textual ground ripe for
travel. This book is the story of a year's writing by a veteran of modern literature. It is a chronological arrangement of
thirteen lyrical, occasional, and narrative poems.

Author Biography

Wayne K. Chapman is Professor Emeritus of English at Clemson University and is now living with his family in Portland Oregon--a native son of four generations. He is the author/editor of seventeen books and numerous articles on W.B. Yeats, Leonard and Virginia Woolf, Irish scholar-poets Edward Dowden and Elizabeth Dickinson West, and William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Chapman taught at Clemson for twenty-five years, edited The South Carolina Review for twenty, and directed Clemson University Press for sixteen as its executive editor. He has also read poetry and fiction for The Timberline Review as one of its rotating associate editors-in-chief (2018). This is his first collection of poetry, and he prays it won't be his last.