Epistles

*Total season's marketing budget of $18,000; individual book budget of $3,000. *Newsletter and catalog feature mailed to entire Sarabande database as well as any contacts Jarman provides. *2,000 postcards mailed to MFA programs, bookstores, and libraries as well as any contacts Jarman provides. *Additional review copies sent to journals with a Christian focus. *Advanced readers copies through Book Sense Advanced Access Program. Will submit for AAP/Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, PSA Williams Prize, Christianity Today Book Award, The Balcones Poetry Prize

The ninth poetry collection from the 1998 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize-winner.“To read this book is to be reminded of how many major poems have their root in prayer.”—Grace Schulman “The thirty prose poems that make up Epistles are as compellingly modern in their form as they are timeless in their quest for spiritual truths amid radical doubts.”—David Lehman These are compellingly modern prose poems in the style of Paul’s Letters to the Corinthians. Mark Jarman’s book The Black Riviera won the 1991 Poets’ Prize. Questions for Ecclesiastes was a finalist for the 1997 National Book Critics Circle Award. Jarman is a professor at Vanderbilt University in Nashville.