Sum

Co-op available Possible blurbs from Timothy Steele, Charles Martin, Carmine Starnino, Michael Lista, James Pollock Select print campaign; Poetry, Verse Daily, The New Criterion, Poets & Writers, Poetry Show, Parnassus, Slate, NPR.org/David Orr; Wells is also Alexandra Oliver's editor on Meeting the Tormentors at Safeway and she may be able to persuade a few colleagues to take a look on his behalf Select radio campaign (targeting NPR/The Writers Almanac) Print campaign will also target poetry bloggers/reviewers Promotion through the Career-Limiting Moves blog (www.zachariahwells.blogspot.com Social media campaign with focus on poetry performance videos/YouTube Goodreads giveaways

Playful, allusive, persona-shifting poems from a Biblioasis poetry editor, whose work has been sung at the Opera National in Paris."A poet of direct speech and muscular lexicon."--Quill & Quire Nimbly slipping between personae, masks, and moods, the prosody-driven poems of Sum weigh the volatility and mutability of the self against the forces of habit, instinct, and urge. With homages to Hopkins, Graves, Wislawa Szymborska, Paul Muldoon, and more, and in allusion-dappled, playfully sprung stanzas, this third book from poet and critic Zachariah Wells both wears its influences openly and spins a sound texture all its own, in a collection far greater than its parts. Zachariah Wells is the author of two collections of poetry and a book of criticism (Career Limiting Moves, 2014).