Welcome to Midland
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Deep Vellum Publishing
Published:23rd Sep '21
Should be back in stock very soon
- Tour planned for Texas and US bookstores, literary festivals; starting with Wild Detectives in Dallas, Texas
- Strong promotion in North Texas, where Logen Cure has her roots and runs a Dallas poetry reading series
- Special giveaway on GoodReads and social media for Pride Month, June 2021
- Serial rights targeting Texas Monthly, Gulf Coast, Kenyon Review, The New Yorker, and others
- Print and digital publicity targeting The Rumpus, Poets & Writers, American Poets, Electric Literature, Book Riot, Rain Taxi, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, LARB Blog, Full Stop, The White Review, Out Magazine, Spectrum South, and others
- Promotion at or events pitched for Texas Book Festival, Wordplay, Brooklyn Book Festival, Dodge Poetry Festival, ALA, and AWP
- Review copies will be sent targeting all major print and digital literary media outlets, reviewers, and booksellers; additional copies available upon request
- Promotion on the publisher’s website (deepvellum.org), Twitter feed (@deepvellum), and Facebook page (/deepvellum); and publisher’s e-newsletter
A debut collection of poetry reckoning with silence, secrets, gossip, and survival while growing up queer in conservative West Texas.
Welcome to Midland is a queer coming-of-age narrative in verse set against the backdrop of conservative small-town Texas. These linked poems explore the cultural and natural history of West Texas (from the horned lizard to dirt storms to Laura Bush’s car accident), connecting events and movements from across eras to create a tenuous yet strong sense of place. Giving voice to secrets and silence, Welcome to Midland considers identity, community, family, and legend.
"With gentle, simple language, Logen Cure invokes images so rich that you can almost taste them. Her love of words and her ability to tell a story reveal her to be a poet with a novelist's sense of narrative and characterization. For instance, in 'Camera Shy,' she deftly paints a picture of high school angst and joy so evocative that it transports us in time—summing up our shared experience of adolescence in a few heartbreakingly beautiful images. Logen Cure's poetry shakes readers in a way that can't be logically explained, but that you can feel in your bones, and in your memories." —Wess Mongo Jolley, Author, Editor, and Founder of the IndieFeed Performance Poetry Channel
“Every once in a great while, a poetry reading can freeze an audience in their seats. This happened to me on a sweltering Fort Worth evening… One thing was certain: when poet Logen Cure had finished with the audience, you could’ve heard a pin drop… Afterward, the friend who’d accompanied me leaned over and said, ‘You know how I said I didn’t like poetry? I think I was wrong.’” —Camille Griep, author of New Charity Blues
ISBN: 9781646050697
Dimensions: unknown
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100 pages