Smote

$2500 marketing and publicity budget Co-op available Galleys available: national mailings with special push to publications to publications that have previously published and reviewed Kimbrell National advertising in Poetry, Ploughshares, and relevant literary blogs and websites eBook available at same time as print publication, eBook ISBN to be included on all press materials and wherever print ISBN is listed. Author will promote both mediums through social media. Internet marketing campaign to include announcement on Sarabande national listserv as well as review copy mailing to online journals and blogs Electronic postcard to announce publication sent to Kimbrell's contacts

A haunted American South as told by a boy hero In lush and comedic language reminiscent of Faulkner and O’Connor.

"Smote is a book of the dark reality of our daily existence; it is a book of abiding grace."—Robert Olen Butler

I release you like the crank-addled truck driver
releases his cargo at the midnight dock
until the warehouse is one in a trail
of crumbs, little light left on behind him.

James Kimbrell is the author of The Gatehouse Heaven and My Psychic, and the co-translator of Three Poets of Modern Korea. He been the recipient of the Discovery/The Nation Award, a Whiting Award, a fellowship from the NEA, and a Morton Prize.