sparrows over clouds: poetry & prose & songs
AVAILABLE NOVEMBER 17, 2026
sparrows over clouds: poetry & prose & songs is an expressive collection by Jean-Paul Fallavollita exploring love, family, mortality and the strange passage of time.
These seventy-six offerings move between the intimate and the expansive–from childhood and parenthood experiences to desire, loss and longing; from the emotional resonance of beloved books, music and art to the wonder of the natural world and the uncertain landscapes of memory.
The book also includes The Painted Lines—Ghosts of the Rebellion, an imagined debut album presented through lyric-poems written as songs by a fictional band. The musicians were never assembled. The album was never recorded. What remains are the words, read as poems and heard as songs. Where the melody is created by the reader, the final and most important member of the band.
sparrows over clouds is available in multiple formats:
Hardcover (ISBN 978-1-0678716-0-4)
Softcover (ISBN 978-1-0678716-1-1)
eBook (ISBN 978-1-0678716-2-8)
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About the author
Jean-Paul Fallavollita is a Toronto-based writer and artist and is the Co-Founder, Consulting Editor and regular contributor to Biff Bam Pop!, established in 2008 as an appreciative and positive voice for all things pop culture. In addition to reviews, interviews and editorial commentary, his long-standing regular column, The Wednesday Run, highlights select must-read comic books and graphic novels. An avid reader of comic books and sequential art since he was this tall, he has also illustrated the horror-themed comic book anthology, Biff Bam Boo (2011) and was co-compilation editor of the short story horror anthology, Strange World (2012). His sculptural artwork has been shown at the Blackwood Gallery at the University of Toronto, Mississauga. He continues to write, draw, paint and listen to music regularly at his home studio and office in Toronto, where he lives with his wife Stephanie and their two children, Nathan and Addison.
sparrows over clouds: poetry & prose & songs is his first book.
He can be found at http://www.jpfallavollita.com
