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I'm No Longer Troubled by the Extravagance

Rick Bursky author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:BOA Editions, Limited

Published:22nd Oct '15

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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, specifically targeting Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, The New York Time Book Review, The New Yorker, Poets & Writers Magazine, The Rumpus, Huffington Post Poetry, The San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, etc. Will pitch author events to local bookstores where Bursky is known: Vroman's Bookstore Pen & Stationery Department (Pasadena, CA); Book Soup (West Hollywood, CA); Small World Books (Venice, CA); Skylight Books (Los Angeles, CA). National advertising in Poets & Writers magazine, American Poets magazine, the Academy of American Poets newsletter, Rain Taxi, and Redactions. Fall announcements will be submitted to Publishers Weekly. Blurbs from acclaimed poets Stephen Dobyns and Mark Irwin. Extensive promotion through BOA's website and blog; Facebook (6,200+ followers), Twitter (4,500 followers), Instagram (700 followers), and Pinterest accounts; print and e-postcards; print and e-materials; and print and e-catalogs. Electronic postcards to announce book publication will be sent to academic contacts, bookstore contacts, and literary bloggers. Electronic newsletter feature will be emailed to BOA's database of 3,000+ contacts. Author will attend the AWP Conference 2016 in Los Angeles, where he will have an author signing. BOA Editions will also be the Presenting Sponsor for AWP 2016, to celebrate its 40th anniversary, which will bring new attention to BOA and its new books. 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. Promotion through the author's social media accounts. Bursky has a substantive online presence, with a Facebook profile with about 1,200+ contacts (handle: Rick Bursky), and a Twitter account (handle: @RickBursky). Promotion through the author's blog and website: http://rickbursky.blogspot.com/.

Mapping human fragility, lost lovers, and mysterious pasts, this new collection is an exploration of the extravagance of being alive.I'm No Longer Troubled by the Extravagance is a collection of poems that assign new meanings to the people and things of the past. The book moves in three sections through a fantastic landscape that maps human fragility. The poems in the first section speak to matters of the heart-intimacy and loss-punctuated by lovers who leave. The second section is comprised of prose poems chronicling misadventures and conspiracies: Russian spies on Wilshire Boulevard, artichokes that mate for life, and secret photographs of God. Finally, the third section pans out from individual experience, hosting the collective in fable-like reflections. Together, the poems in Extravagance mark with fragile acceptance the surreal extravagance of being alive. The Relentless One day we'll know how long the dead have to be dead before they feel hunger. One day it'll be summer forever. In the meantime, the weather, looking for its cue, keeps an eye on me; and I keep whatever money's in my pocket crumpled in a ball. A relentless responsibility dogs me, and the funny thing is, these are the lyrics to a happy song. Go ahead, tap your foot, snap your fingers. We're roasting a pig in the yard. Rick Bursky is the author of Death Obscura (Sarabande Books, 2010) and The Soup of Something Missing (Bear Star Press, 2004), winner of the Dorothy Brunsman Poetry Prize. He lives in Los Angeles where he works in advertising and teaches poetry in the UCLA Extension Writer's Program.

"Bursky's collection of poems, titled I'm No Longer Troubled by the Extravagance, kept me moving in all sorts of directions. His facile accession of language, banal if used unequivocally, is an exploitation of eccentricities sprinkled with the right dose of humility and charm." -Heath Bowen, New Pages "Rick Bursky's breezy, surreal narratives are bristling with a 'Qui vive' alertness to the pedestrian world and its aftershocks all the way to eternity. I'm wonderfully troubled by these poems, their extravagances and great diversions through which we often plunge recklessly toward truth and all perils of the heart: 'Love without fear is meaningless, it's a machine / like grief, always in the early stages of invention.'" -Mark Irwin "Rick Bursky is blessed with a complicated and eccentric imagination, and the ability to write pellucidly uncomplicated sentences. These gifts are joined together in his new book I'm No Longer Troubled by the Extravagance where each poem is startling in its strangeness and weird beauty. Other gifts are Bursky's constant ability to surprise, as well as his ability to create an amalgam of the serious, comic, and fantastic, turning many of his poems into delirious journeys. The book is a pleasure to read." -Stephen Dobyns

ISBN: 9781938160790

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 127g

104 pages