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& in Open, Marvel grapples with wonder in everyday existence. A sense of quietness through seasonal change threads the interlaced contemplations in the collection, which approach the twice-removed space we occupy from the physical world. The act of mind and body is experienced as a journey for both writer and reader. How we are all elements in fall. How we are all purpose. How what makes us connects us. How there are lovely works beyond us, which in turn, include us. How we plead to ourselves, See . . . just see.

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American Happiness is an eclectic collection of verse from a bold poet of everyday life, Jacqueline Allen Trimble. Ironically titled, the work addresses everything from the death of parents to racial tension to the encroachment of coyotes into urban spaces. The title is taken from a poem in the book which considers the kinder, gentler exploits of Sheriff Andy and Deputy Barney during a time when Southern law enforcement was neither universally kind or gentle. Says Trimble, “Barney had one bullet/and no need for a rope./The only burning he did was for his Thelma Lou.” On her poetic journey, which takes us from the personal to the political, Trimble probes our racial divide. She is by turns compassionate and fierce, cutting at our hypocrisy with the knife of her words and willing us toward our better common humanity.

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Splitting the Moon tracks Joel Hayward's intriguing journey into Islam, his fascination with the mysteries of faith, his experiences and observations as a Western Muslim, and his thoughts on the state of the Ummah (Islamic community) today. He writes his poetry to capture events each day in the way that some people keep a diary, both deeply personal and reflective.

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The Paz Prize for Poetry is presented by The National Poetry Series and The Center @ Miami Dade College. This annual award – named in the spirit of the late Nobel Prize-winning poet Octavio Paz – honors a previously unpublished book of poetry written originally in Spanish (and presented bilingually in both English and Spanish) by an American resident. An open competition is held each May, when an esteemed Spanish-speaking poet selects a winning manuscript. The National Poetry Series, Miami Dade College, and the Miami Book Fair will all assist Akashic in the promotion of this book. Publicize this prize to major dailies, weeklies, literary publications, alternative publications. Major radio and television push. Akashic's promotion will have a strong social media component Launch event at the Miami Book Fair International. Giveaways on Goodreads, LibraryThing, and through Advance Access. Galleys (and e-galleys via Edelweiss) available 4-6 months in advance of publication. Nomination to poetry awards. Targeted outreach to poetry review outlets–print & online Sneak peek of select poems available on AkashicBooks.com; exclusive, not-in-the-book poems featured on AkashicBooks.com

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This is the highest-profile publication to date in Chris Abani’s acclaimed Black Goat poetry series. Publicize to major dailies, weeklies, literary publications, alternative publications. Major radio and television push.

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NEA Fellowship recipient; Pamela is well connected to military family audience; Documentary-style war narrative with unique focus not on the war front but on the home front; Excellent candidate for course adoption; Situated in current events; Kathryn A. Morton Prize Winner, selected by Rowan Ricardo Phillips

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A Pulitzer Prize-winning author details an unconsummated love affair that sustains political, philosophical, and sexual interest over a lifetime. The truth is always differentfrom what anyone says out loud,but who really cares? Not I, said the manI chose to be, nor I nor I nor I—among the many of us she left teetering. Stephen Dunn is a Pulitzer Prize winner and the author of seventeen collections of poetry, most recently Lines of Defense , Here and Now , and What Goes On: Selected & New Poems: 1995-2009 . He teaches at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey.

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" Smote is a book of the dark reality of our daily existence; it is a book of abiding grace."—Robert Olen Butler I release you like the crank-addled truck driverreleases his cargo at the midnight dockuntil the warehouse is one in a trailof crumbs, little light left on behind him. James Kimbrell is the author of The Gatehouse Heaven and My Psychic , and the co-translator of Three Poets of Modern Korea . He been the recipient of the Discovery/ The Nation Award, a Whiting Award, a fellowship from the NEA, and a Morton Prize.

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Men carry a mattress retrievedfrom a dumpster past the floodedfoundations of an unfinishedhigh-rise, an old woman catchesa pigeon in the folds of her dressthe dead smile and rise from swimmingpools or stand at attentionon stamps. The landscape can't believeit's real—there is no groundbeneath it, like what mirrors do. Adam Day is the recipient of fellowships from the Poetry Society of America and Kentucky Arts Council, and a PEN Emerging Writers Award. His work has appeared in Boston Review , the Kenyon Review , American Poetry Review , AGNI , the Iowa Review , and others.

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