Goodbye to the Orchard

*Total season's marketing budget of $15,000; individual book budget of $3,000 *Newsletter and catalog feature mailed to entire Sarabande database and to Cramer's many personal contacts *2,000 brochures and 1,000 postcards mailed to MFA programs, bookstores, libraries, and Cramer's personal contacts *Author tour in NYC and NE: Massachusetts (Amherst, Worcester); Connecticut (Madison, Middletown); Maryland (Bethesda); Maine (Portland, Hallowell, Cumberland Foreside); New Hampshire (Plymouth); New York State (Saratoga Springs, Sleepy Hollow)

Poetry that finds sense in life through a confrontation with death.“There isn’t a page in this book that isn’t bracing. . . .”—Marie Howe Beginning with the word “defeat” and concluding on the word “alive,” Goodbye to the Orchard testifies that we must remain open in the face of loss, because loss is a given; and that our glimpses of the mysteries—whether of dying or living—are all we’re allowed. Steven Cramer is the author of The Eye that Desires to Look Upward, The World Book, and Dialogue for the Left and Right Hand. He currently lives in Massachusetts.