Lampblack & Ash

*Total season marketing budget of $15,000; individual book budget of $3,000 *Newsletter and catalog feature mailed to entire Sarabande database and to Muench's personal contacts *2,000 brochures and 1,000 postcards mailed to bookstores, libraries, and Muench's personal contacts

Winner of the 2004 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, selected by Carol Muske-Dukes[T]here is something utterly in thrall here, honey-slow and fixated. Driven by obsession—in particular, obsession with the legendary French poet, Robert Desnos—Muench’s identification with a true self beyond the self’s known truth is startling.—from the introduction by Carol Muske-Dukes “Simone’s poems have a confidence and sophistication of what I like to call intentionality. Also wit, grace, poise, and a relationship to writing beyond self-referential feeling.”—Anne Waldman “Lush, sprouting, sensuous images line-by-line, adopting myth freely, Muench’s poems are volatile explosives, circling beauty.”—James Tate Simone Muench is poetry editor of ACM and is an assistant professor at Lewis University, as well as a doctoral student at the University of Illinois at Chicago.