In Medias Res

*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 An-hwei Lee's personal contacts *2,000 brochures and 1,000 postcards mailed to MFA programs, bookstores, libraries, and An-hwei Lee's personal contacts *Author tour in California (La Jolla, San Diego, Berkeley, Los Angeles)

Chosen by Heather McHugh as winner of the 2003 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry“Lee’s strange and gemological arrangements are the measure of her gift. . . .”—from the Foreword by Heather McHugh In the form of an eccentric dictionary, this debut brings to mind the long poems of Anne Carson. In compressed and oddly slanted “definitions,” Lee’s poems move through the alphabet in an attempt to limn the border between language and spirit. In Medias Res is an investigation into how God hides in language.