The Trembling Answers

Galleys available: national mailing to key review/media outlets 4-5 months prior to publication. National advertising: Poets & Writers magazine, American Poets 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, The LA Times, Poets & Writers Magazine, The Rumpus, Huffington Post Poetry, Vanity Fair, Bookforum, LA Review of Books, NPR, etc. Outreach to blogs and online outlets for category features, including Buzzfeed, Bustle, etc. for such themes as fatherhood (Father's Day), Poetry on Family, NYC poets, children with disabilities, Cerebral Palsy, etc.). Buy-ins to relevant academic conferences, trade shows, and publications: Society for Disability Studies Annual Meeting, Association on Higher Education and Disability, American Library Association Annual Meeting, CBSD Sales and Academic catalogs. Spring announcements will be submitted to Publishers Weekly. Online/social media campaign: Extensive promotion through BOA's website and blog; Facebook (6,500+ contacts), Twitter (6,100 followers), Instagram (1,500+ followers), and Pinterest (550+ 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 Teicher's academic contacts, bookstore contacts, and literary bloggers. Electronic newsletter feature will be emailed to BOA's database of 6,500+ 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 2017 in Washington, DC, where he will have an author signing. Plans for a multi-city book tour, including such places as Lewiston, ME (Bates College); Westerly, RI (Savoy Bookshop); Mystic, CT (Bank Square Books); New York City (KGB, McNally Jackson Books, Greenlight Bookstore, the Writers Read series at The Slipper Room); Boston, MA (Brookline Booksmith, Trident Bookstore, Porter Square Books); Clemson, SC (Clemson University); Houston, TX (Brazos Bookstore, University of Houston); Dallas/Austin, TX (Book People); Los Angeles, CA (LA Times Festival of Books, Bookshop, Diesel, Skylight Books); and Iowa City, IA (Prairie Lights Bookstore). Plans for joint readings with other BOA authors, including Christian Barter, Stephen Dobyns, Aracelis Girmay, Jillian Weise, Chen Chen, Rick Bursky, etc. Blurbs and endorsements from Catherine Barnett, Rachel Zucker, and Li-Young Lee. Promotion through the author's social media platforms and website: www.craigmorganteicher.com.

A master of neo-confessional poetry, Craig Morgan Teicher charts new territory in his fierce exploration of family, fatherhood, and poetry.At once an extension of and a departure from his previous explorations of family and art, Craig Morgan Teicher's The Trembling Answers delves boldly into the tangled realms of fatherhood, marriage, and poetry. Dealing with the day-to-day of family life--including the alert anxiety and remarkable beauty of caring for a child with severe cerebral palsy--these personal narratives brightly illuminate the relationship that exists between poetry and a life fiercely lived. Video Baby Monitor A watched pot never boils, so perhaps a son on a screen never dies. Like the eyes of a painting this image follows wherever we move. Surveillance is love, love is every moment the last. Barely moving picture, memory of now, sleep, be still, be safe. Night is long, life short. I cover you with my eyes. Craig Morgan Teicher: is the author of four books of poetry and fiction and the editor of Once and For All: The Best of Delmore Schwartz (2016). A prolific critic and reviewer of poetry, he has worked at Publishers Weekly for 10 years, where he is currently Director of Digital Operations. He teaches at New York University and Princeton University.