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Erica Jong   is a celebrated poet, novelist & essayist with over twenty-five published books that have been influential all over the world. Her most popular novel,  Fear of Flying,  celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2013. Never out of print, it has sold over thirty-five million copies translated into over forty-five languages including Chinese and Arabic. Erica’s latest novel,  Fear of Dying,  was published in 2015/2016 with many publishers all over the world. Her awards include the  Fernanda Pivano Award for Literature in Italy (named for the critic who introduced Ernest Hemingway, Allen Ginsberg, and Erica Jong to the Italian public), the Sigmund Freud Award in Italy, the Deauville Literary Award in France, the United Nations Award for Excellence in Literature, and Poetry magazine’s Bess Hokin Prize (also won by Sylvia Plath and W.S. Merwin). Erica’s poetry has appeared in publications worldwide, including the New Yorker , the LA Times , the Paris Review , Haaretz , and many more .  Erica lives in New York and Connecticut with her husband and two poodles.

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• Title is a collection of the author’s greatest short works, from a Lambda Award-winning prolific feminist poet • Feminist, LGBTQ, anti-racism collection that will appeal to Judy Grahn's existing fan base, the literary community, LGBTQ readers and social justice activists, and professors teaching courses on queer culture, feminism, and activism • Market/publicity focus: bookstores, universities • Author plans to tour New York, Los Angeles, New Mexico, Seattle, Portland, and San Francisco

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In April 2013, just five months after being named the first Poet Laureate of Los Angeles, Eloise had a brain injury resulting in Wernicke’s aphasia—a breakdown in the symbol system of language. Poetry was the guide and motivation for recovery. This collection is comprised of a series of five-line poems that began as a focusing exercise yet transformed into a remarkable channel for her creativity. These poems are filled with the same features that have pervaded her work, meaning they are serious, at times playful, sometimes beautiful and sometimes “goofy.” But all have that twist, that meaningful point, that is unique to Eloise’s consciousness.

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In John Barr's poems, the ancient masters encounter the modern world. Dante on a beach in China beholds the Inferno: “Flaring well gas night and day, / towers rise as if to say, / Pollution can be beautiful.” Bach’s final fugue informs all of nature. Villon is admonished by an aging courtesan. Aristotle finds “Demagogues are the insects of politics. / Like water beetles they stay afloat / on surface tension, they taxi on iridescence.” And his afterlife: “When three-headed Cerberus greeted him / Socrates replied: I won’t need / an attack dog, thank you. I married one.”

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• National publicity efforts targeting: <p>+Industry journals such as Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Library Journal, Bookforum, and ShelfAwareness <p>+Local newspapers and journals to the author <p>+National blogs and podcasts such as Salon, Slate, The Rumpus, Buzzfeed Books, Huffington Post, Barnes & Noble Review, NPR <p>+Publications the author has written for, been featured in, or whose work has been reviewed in <p>+Schools and organizations the author is associated with
<p>• Marketing to bookstores, libraries, book clubs, and universities
<p>• Article pitches by author to major industry publications, newspapers, and blogs
<p>• Author and book signing at the 2017 Association of Writers and Writing Programs conference
<p>• Multi-city book tour
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<p>• E-newsletter promotion to several-thousand-plus contacts
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Lena Khalaf Tuffaha's debut, <i>Water & Salt</i>, sings in the voices of people ravaged by cycles of war and news coverage. These poems alternately rage, laugh, celebrate and grieve, singing in the voices of people ravaged by cycles of war and news coverage and inviting the reader to see the human lives lived beyond the headlines.

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Winner of the Letras Latinas/Red Hen Poetry Prize Ruth Irupé Sanabria’s second collection of poetry, Beasts Behave In Foreign Land examines the internal landscape of a family confronting the psychological and emotional aftershocks of genocide and exile. Drawing on her personal experience during Argentina’s military dictatorship (1976 to 1983), these poems emerge from the defining moment in which she had the opportunity to testify in the trials against the Fifth Army Corps in Bahia Blanca, thirty-seven years after soldiers kidnapped, tortured, and imprisoned her parents. Weaving metaphor, ekphrasis, and voice, Sanabria’s poems pay tribute to the ways women in her family use art, music, and testimony to process the unspeakable and confront profound loss. Written in two sections and set in various cities throughout Argentina and the United States, the poems in Beasts Behave in Foreign Land explore the insistence and resiliency of love.

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• National publicity efforts targeting: +Industry journals such as Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Library Journal, Kirkus, Bookforum, and ShelfAwareness +Major newspapers and journals such as The New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Time, Entertainment Weekly, and The New Yorker +National blogs and podcasts such as Salon, Slate, The Rumpus, Buzzfeed Books, Huffington Post, Barnes & Noble Review, NPR +Major national radio stations +Publications the author has written for, been featured in, or whose work has been reviewed in +Other publications focusing on the African-American experience, the LGBTQ experience, and poetry +Schools and organizations the author is associated with • Marketing to bookstores, libraries, book clubs, and universities • Author and book signing at the 2017 Association of Writers and Writing Programs conference • Multi-city book tour encompassing New York (New York, Brooklyn), Washington, DC, and California (Los Angeles). • Promotion online through the author’s website • E-newsletter promotion to several-thousand-plus contacts • Promotion through social media to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Goodreads, and Amazon

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In Elise Paschen’s prize-winning poetry collection, Infidelities , Richard Wilbur wrote that the poems “. . . draw upon a dream life which can deeply tincture the waking world.” In her third poetry book, The Nightlife , Paschen once again taps into dream states, creating a narrative which balances between the lived and the imagined life. Probing the tension between “The Elevated” and the “Falls,” she explores troubled love and relationships, the danger of accident and emotional volatility. At the heart of the book is a dream triptych which retells the same encounter from different perspectives, the drama between the narrative described and the sexual tension created there. The Nightlife demonstrates Paschen’s versatility and formal mastery as she experiments with forms such as the pantoum, the villanelle and the tritina, as well as concrete poems and poems in free verse. Throughout this poetry collection, she interweaves lyric and narrative threads, creating a contrapuntal story-line. The book begins with a dive into deep water and ends with an opening into sky.

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Run Away to the Yard is a unique collection of poems that addresses personal identity within the contemporary culture. In parable-like vignettes and metaphor-dense portraits, Krueger’s poems challenge old notions of self, asking readers to reconsider what brings meaning to daily life. Through the lens of close observation—much like a photographer—Krueger examines the complexity of our responses to a convoluted world. Poems ask us to consider who we are when our lives become stripped of the ordinary and expected, whether that be material commodities, health, daily routines, relationships, even memory. Where, then, do we find meaning and purpose? These poems aim toward greater compassion—for other people and ultimately for ourselves.

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