There You Are

With the help of editor Cedar Sigo, we will promote the book heavily through word-of-mouth and review copies to the vibrant poetry communities in and associated with San Francisco and Bolinas, CA, as well as that associated with Naropa University, as well as to poets such as Eileen Myles, Alice Notley, and Etel Adnan who can help promote it. We will try to support the book with a follow-up interview between Sigo and Kyger, pitching it to the Poetry Foundation, as an entrée into the book and Kyger’s extraordinary life. We will seek reviews in major literary and general audience publications who cover literary history, such as the New York Times, New York Review of Books, Harper’s, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, as well as to major Bay-area outlets such as the San Francisco Chronicle. Review copies and pitches will be sent to print and online venues with dedicated poetry coverage, like The Boston Review, The Rumpus, The Volta, Poetry, BOMB,and trades such as Publishers Weekly. Co-op available

An oral history of a poet who intersected with nearly every innovative poetic movement of the late twentieth century.The inaugural book of Wave's new interview series, There You Are combines forty years of interviews, letters, poems, and journals to present a narrative of the remarkable poet Joanne Kyger, who has intersected with the most influential movements of late twentieth-century poetry, yet has remained rooted in her daily practice with a forthright attention to our present moment. One of the major poets of the San Francisco Renaissance, Joanne Kyger was born in 1934 in Vallejo, CA. After studying at the University of California, Santa Barbara, she moved to San Francisco in 1957, where she became a member of the circle of poets centered around Jack Spicer and Robert Duncan. In 1960, she joined Gary Snyder in Japan and soon traveled to India with Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky. She returned to California in 1964 and published her first book, The Tapestry and the Web, in 1965. In 1969, she settled in Bolinas, California, where she continues to reside today. She has published over thirty books of poetry and prose, including The Japan and India Journals: 1960-1964, On Time: Poems 2005-2014, As Ever: Selected Poems, and About Now: Collected Poems, which won the 2008 Josephine Miles Award from PEN Oakland. Cedar Sigo was raised on the Suquamish Reservation in the Pacific Northwest and studied at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute. He is the author of eight books and pamphlets of poetry, including Royals, Language Arts, Stranger in Town, Expensive Magic, and two editions of Selected Writings.