Nests in Air

This book is a coup for us because it’s Nathan’s first book since winning the 2012 National Poetry Series (published by Penguin)Print Runs: 1,500Galleys: Open to doing galleys for this titleAdvertising: We will be running ads on LitHub and targeted social media paid campaignsOnline/social media campaign: We will be promoting to a number of sites and blogs such as 3:AM, [PANK], Electric Literature, Entropy, The Collagist , Poets & Writers, Ploughshares, Lit Hub, The Rumpus, Guernica , The Millions, BOMB, Gulf Coast, Asymptote , Pleiades, The Boston Review, Poetry Foundation, American Academy of Poets, Paris ReviewAdditional Trade targeted: Trade publications Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Booklist, Kirkus, Shelf AwarenessAdditional General Media Targeted: NYT, LARB, Bookforum, Boston Globe , Washington Post , NPR Books, New RepublicGeneral tour info: TBD based on pandemicAuthor online promotion through personal channels: nathanhoks.com, Twitter, and InstagramBookseller/Library promotions: We would consider IndieBound promotions/mailings, Regional bookseller catalog ads, bookseller contests or giveaways, attendance at library shows and other key conferences, Baker & Taylor arc program, B&N Discover Program, etc. CCSS-aligned and/or leveled: No

For Nathan Hoks, a poem is a verbal nest, a weave of various scraps and strands inside of which something incubates. In Nests In Air, he makes this definition manifest by blending research of animals’ nest making habits with poetic forms that create vivid imaginative spaces. Structured sets of four poems followed by suites of four images, the poems and images weave together, creating a nest of sorts. These poems are personal and political, social, and ecological, marked by conflict, contradiction, and uncertainty. Open the book and enter a space where “the slippery outline that haunts the soap / And the twisty timeline ghost-riding through me.”