The Golden Goblet

Printed galleys, with copies going to all prominent national review media, trade publishing review outlets, poetry & literary magazines, & influential bloggers

E-galley hosted on Edelweiss for reviewer, blogger, and librarian advance access

Blurb requests to be gathered from prominent cultural figures, such as actors, authors, poets, politicians, and translators.

Book launch parties in Dallas with translator appearances at both the University of Texas at Dallas and also Deep Vellum Books

Book presentation tour of universities, German cultural organizations, and bookstores to be scheduled determined by translators’ schedules, with feature markets to be targeted: New York, NY; Boston, MA; Washington, DC; Chicago, IL; Minneapolis, MN; Austin, TX; Houston, TX; Seattle, WA; Portland, OR; San Francisco, CA; Los Angeles, CA, with additional cities to be added to the routing over time.

Interviews with leading media outlets on radio and print to be scheduled




Promotion on LibraryThing, Goodreads, Riffle, Litsy, and other social reading websites




Promotion on the publisher's website (deepvellum.org), Twitter feed (@deepvellum), and Facebook page (/deepvellum)

Promotion in the publisher’s direct-to-reader & direct-to-reviewer e-newsletter

Promotion at book festivals and film and media conventions across the country, including but not limited to: Texas Book Festival (Austin), Litquake (San Francisco), Miami Book Festival, Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, PEN World Voices (New York), etc.

Print & digital advertising in select literary journals, newspapers, and magazines that work with this type of genre-bending literature and newspaper book sections.

Vivid and lyrical, this new translation of Goethe’s selected poetry illuminates him as philosopher, storyteller, and revolutionary.

The Golden Goblet traces Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s poetry from the idealism of youth to the liberation of maturity. In contrast to his rococo contemporaries, Goethe’s poetry draws on the graceful simplicity of German folk rhythms to develop complex, transcendent themes. This robust selection, artfully translated by Zsuzsanna Ozsváth and Frederick Turner, explores transformation, revolution, and illumination in Goethe’s lush lyrical style that forever altered the course of German literature.