Testament

Galleys available: national mailing to key review/media outlets 4-5 months prior to publication. National print campaign: 100 finished books will be mailed to key review outlets, with emphasis on publications that have previously published and reviewed Waldrep, including Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, Poets & Writers Magazine, The Rumpus, Huffington Post Poetry, etc. Will also reach out to British media, as much of the book was written in and about the UK. National advertising in Poets & Writers magazine, American Poet magazine, the Academy of American Poets newsletter, Rain Taxi, and Redactions. Spring announcements will be submitted to Publishers Weekly. Excerpts from The New York Times Book Review, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, The Huffington Post, and The Rumpus. Extensive promotion through BOA's website and blog; Twitter (4,000 followers), and Pinterest accounts; print and e-postcards; print and e-materials; and print and e-catalogs. Electronic postcard to announce publication will be sent to Waldrep's academic/library contacts (specifically targeting Religious Studies), bookstore contacts, and literary bloggers. Due to his religious proscriptions, Waldrep will not participate in bar settings, Facebook promotion, or broadcast media (radio, podcast, TV), but will send personalized emails to his own contact lists of several hundred. Waldrep will create a course guide for the book, to pair with course adoptions for religious studies and spirituality, and the American long poem. Electronic newsletter feature will be emailed to BOA's database of 3,000+ contacts. Attendance and possible author signing at AWP Conference in Minneapolis. Ebook will be available at the same time as print publication to maximize sales. Ebook ISBN will be included on all press materials, author and publisher websites, and whenever print ISBN is listed. Publisher and author will be promoting both e and p through social media.

This long autobiographical poem covers Scottish castles, cymatics, religion, and Dolly the cloned sheep, while investigating gender as lyric form.In this book-length poem, G.C. Waldrep addresses matters as diverse as Mormonism, cymatics, race, Dolly the cloned sheep, and his own life and faith. Drafted over twelve trance-like days while in residence at Hawthornden Castle, Waldrep responds to such poets as Alice Notley, Lisa Robertson, and Carla Harryman, and tackles the question of whether gender can be a lyric form. G.C. Waldrep's books include Disclamor (BOA Editions Ltd., 2007) and Your Father on the Train of Ghosts (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2011). He lives in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, where he teaches at Bucknell University, edits West Branch, and serves as editor-at-large for the Kenyon Review.