Our Post-Soviet History Unfolds

*Plans to sell Lerman "story" (see selling points) to gay and lesbian media *Incredible stage presence with experience as a stand up comic. Tour to include bars and clubs in NYC area. *Total season marketing budget of $15,000; individual book budget of $3,000 *Newsletter and catalog feature mailed to entire Sarabande database and to Lerman's personal contacts *2,000 brochures and 1,000 postcards mailed to bookstores, libraries, and Lerman's personal contacts

Wise and humorous fourth collection from Juniper Prize winner and former stand-up comedy writerEleanor Lerman, whose last collection, The Mystery of Meteors (2001), was named by Library Journal as “Best of Poetry, 2001,” returns with a dazzling, funny, and seriously mature new book. In Our Post-Soviet History Unfolds, Lerman boldly wrests contemporary mysticism from a hard-knock New York Jewish consciousness. She’s a solid witness to the 1960s, Cold War, Vietnam, sexual revolution, and drugs. However, in her favor, she’s traveled through baby boomer irony, bought the T-shirt, and found her way back. Eleanor Lerman has been nominated for a National Book Award, received the inaugural Juniper Prize, and was the recipient of a fiction grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts. She is a lifelong New Yorker.