The Inside of an Apple

We will seek reviews and interviews with top tier publications such as Paris Review, Poets & Writers, Bookworm, Bookforum, among others. Beckman plans to tour extensively on the East coast, reading with fellow Wave authors such as Noelle Kocot and Mary Ruefle, as well as additional West coast readings. We will promote this title through emails to academics throughout the country and bookstores in the Northeast and Northwest regions. We will send preview copies to academics and high-profile literary figures in the who know Beckman personally, as well as to academics who have taught his other collections published by Wave. We will promote this title through pre-publication promotions to our mailing list, as well as on our author page, and through Wave's facebook and twitter accounts.

Joshua Beckman's poems of emotional curiosity invite the reader to a quiet, familiar space."If you take a broad squint at our nation's new poets you can find two general strategies: poets who are carrying the torch, and poets who are using it to start fires. And then we have Joshua Beckman. He seems to be doing everything."--Daniel Handler, The Believer "Beckman ...does the incredible work of writing poems full of desire, for a world in the midst of radical upheaval."--Publishers Weekly (starred review for Take It) Joshua Beckman is at his most immediate, attentive, and available in The Inside of an Apple. Beckman's latest collection of sincere, spare poems invites the reader to experience a revelation of consciousness and a generosity of spirit. Let my still dark soul be music. A made whistle floating out a window arranged. Some little thing fell and I picked it up and up it kept on going. Eight dead stars make a sickle, and the earth is covered in grass. Joshua Beckman is the author of nine books, including collections of poetry, translations, and collaborations. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including a NYFA fellowship and a Pushcart Prize. He lives in Seattle and New York.