Celestial Joyride

FFF co-op available. Galleys available: national mailing to key review/media outlets 4-5 months prior to publication. National advertising: Poets & Writers magazine, American Poet magazine, the Academy of American Poets newsletter, Rain Taxi, and Redactions. National print campaign: 100 finished books will be mailed to key review outlets, specifically targeting Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, Poets & Writers Magazine, The Rumpus, Huffington Post Poetry, etc. Spring announcements will be submitted to Publishers Weekly. Online/social media campaign: Extensive promotion through BOA's website and blog; Facebook (6,300+ contacts), Twitter (5,000 followers), Instagram (1,000+ followers), and Pinterest (500+ followers) accounts; print and e-postcards; print and e-materials; and print and e-catalogs. Electronic postcards to announce book publication will be sent to Waters' academic contacts, bookstore contacts, and literary bloggers. Electronic newsletter feature will be emailed to BOA's database of 5,500+ contacts. 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. Author will attend the AWP Conference 2016 in Los Angeles, where he will have an author signing and panel reading. Waters regularly attends AWP, ALTA, and MELUS conferences. Waters does many joint readings with his wife, the poet and translator Mihaela Moscaliuc, and will be planning events in/around the New Jersey area in the spring. Waters is internationally known, and has strong connections in NY, NJ, MD, OH, Romania, Greece, and the Dominican Republic.

Full of music, these finely crafted poems continue Waters' bold exploration of spiritual recklessness and celebration through sensuality and transgression.In these poems of taut clarity, craft, and texture, Michael Waters continues his bold exploration of sensual pleasure and moral transgression as means of affirming spiritual faith. Just as a joyride suggests recklessness and exhilaration, so Celestial Joyride is an energized journey marked by spiritual recklessness in the face of perpetual mortality. Compelling, musical narratives offer rich meaning and vivid consequence. Michael Waters's poetry books include BOA Editions titles Gospel Night, Darling Vulgarity, finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; and Parthenopi, finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize. He teaches at Monmouth University and in the Drew University MFA Program.