The Available World

*Plans to formally arrange Sarabande's first blog tour, seeking out virtual appearances for him online *Plans to work in cooperation with Graywolf as they publish Monson's next collection of essays, Vanishing Point, forthcoming in April 2010 *Total season marketing budget of $15,000; individual book budget of $3,000 *Newsletter and catalog features both in print and online *Postcard mailing to Monson's personal contacts *Expect review coverage in the Black Warrior Review, Bookforum, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, Emerging Writers Network, Third Coast, and Prairie Schooner, among others.

A meditation on information-overload and an elegy for the worlds we live in--digital, analog, and real.“[Ander Monson’s] poems celebrate defiant excess. In this land of scarcity, right-living involves using up what you have, where you have it; otherwise someone might wreck, steal, or use it and you might not get any. A carpe diem for obscure, doomed youth.”—Stephen Burt Inspired by the cult Japanese video game Katamari Damacy, these poems increase in size and momentum, rolling more and more into their orbits as they go. Formally inventive and fun, The Available World examines the beauty and terror of excess. Ander Monson lives in Tucson, Arizona.