Ripple Effect

1. Finished books will be available for review copy mailings in January, which will help us secure media and bookseller interest in advance of publication. We'll actively seek print media and radio interviews to coincide with National Poetry Month. 2. Additional marketing efforts will include National Poetry Month sponsorship, Poetry Daily online sponsorship, trade and wholesaler advertising, and a large, pre-publication finished book review copy mailing to all major newspapers and poetics journals. 3. We'll promote the book at all major academic and library conferences. Tour: New York, NY; Washington, DC; San Francisco, CA; Los Angeles, CA; Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN; Chicago, IL; Las Vegas, NV; Tucson, AZ

"Deft, delicate, subversive, and more quotable than any American poet who comes to mind."--August KleinzahlerElaine Equi’s poetry has appeared in recent issues of The New Yorker and American Poetry Review and features on her work have run in SPIN magazine, LA Weekly, The Village Voice, The Nation, and a number of major newspapers and journals. The occasion of this New & Selected should garner widespread critical features and interviews, making it a strong contender for award attention. Her poetry—as pop and accessible as it is literary and subtle—has an appeal that reaches across the poetics spectrum, from the classical Chinese to Surrealist and Objectivist; from the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E School to the New York School. Equi’s most recent book, The Cloud of Knowable Things, was selected for the Brodart GEMS program, her Voice-Over won the Poetry Center Book Award, and her Decoy received an Amazon.com editorial review. Chris Faatz, of Powell’s, is a fan of her work, and she is frequently included in editions of The Best American Poetry.