The Butterfly Garden
And 12 Other Poems of the Year
Wayne K. Chapman
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.
About the Author
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 17 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.
