Bye-Bye Land
Format:Paperback
Publisher:BOA Editions, Limited
Published:29th Jun '17
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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, Bookforum, LA Review of Books, NPR, etc. Outreach to blogs and online outlets for category features, including Buzzfeed, Bustle, etc. Buy-ins to relevant academic conferences, trade shows, and publications: American Library Association Annual Meeting, CBSD Sales and Academic catalogs, etc. 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 Barter'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. Barter is also interested in participating in festivals, such as the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival. Plans for readings/events in places where Barter has strong personal and professional connections, including: Brunswick, ME (Bowdoin College); Sullivan, ME; Lewiston, ME (Bates College); Portland, ME; Montpelier, VT (VCFA); Bar Harbor, ME (Acadia National Park); Lawrenceville, NJ (Princeton University); New York, NY; and Kansas City, MO. Barter is particularly well known at Sherman’s Books (Bar Harbor, ME); Labyrinth Books (Princeton, NJ); Jesup Memorial Library (Bar Harbor, ME); Northeast Harbor Library (ME); Southwest Harbor Library (ME); Bernard Library (ME); Brunswick Library (ME); Wayne Library (ME); Cape Elizabeth Library (ME); Ellsworth Library (ME); Bangor Library (ME). Plans for joint readings with other authors with whom Barter is connected, including Jeffrey Thomson (Anchor & Plume Press); Michael Morse (Canarium Books); Whitney Terrell (FSG); and Craig Morgan Teicher (BOA). Promotion through the author's social media platforms and website: www.christianbarterpoetry.com.
A medley of voices in dialogue with each other, this book-length poem underscores the destructiveness and hypocrisy of American venture.
This Isabella Gardner Poetry Award-winning book-length poem is a medley of voices in dialogue with each otheroverheard, remembered, and internalthat represents a mind at work as it considers the destructiveness of human nature, the hypocrisy and artifice of the American dream. Voices from personal conversations, political speeches, Guantanamo detainees, news reports, and famous poets fill these pages, ultimately capturing a world of disrupted beauty and unrealized potential.
Christian Barter is the author of two previous poetry collections: In Someone Else’s House and The Singers I Prefer. Living in Bar Harbor, ME, he is the centennial Poet Laureate of Acadia National Park.
Winner of the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award "Christian Barter's brilliant song of ourselves is Walt Whitman filtered through The Waste Land. Bold and broken-hearted and up-to-the-minute, it is a visionary elegy for America in dozens of dead-on voices you hear every day on the train, in the halls, across the breakfast table. Bye-Bye Land virtually reads itself to you; all you have to do is listen." James Richardson "What a good poet Christian Barter is, whose poems make you believea difficult artistic featthat poetry is an utterly natural act. Reading them is like being handed a set of x-rays in the doctor’s office; you look at them, dumbfounded at how familiar these blurry shapes are'Oh yes,' you think, 'that is my youth, that is my brain, those are my dreams, that is my heart'" Tony Hoagland "There are poets who can bring us to tears; there are poets who can make us ponder vast societal and existential issues; there are poets whose irony moves us at once to ruefulness and to dark laughter; there are poets who fruitfully challenge our intellectual capacities. But Christian Barter is that rarest of writers, the one who can make us react in all these ways, and often simultaneously." Sydney Lea
Winner of the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award "Christian Barter's brilliant song of ourselves is Walt Whitman filtered through The Waste Land. Bold and broken-hearted and up-to-the-minute, it is a visionary elegy for America in dozens of dead-on voices you hear every day on the train, in the halls, across the breakfast table. Bye-Bye Land virtually reads itself to you; all you have to do is listen." —James Richardson "What a good poet Christian Barter is, whose poems make you believe—a difficult artistic feat—that poetry is an utterly natural act. Reading them is like being handed a set of x-rays in the doctor’s office; you look at them, dumbfounded at how familiar these blurry shapes are—'Oh yes,' you think, 'that is my youth, that is my brain, those are my dreams, that is my heart—'" —Tony Hoagland "There are poets who can bring us to tears; there are poets who can make us ponder vast societal and existential issues; there are poets whose irony moves us at once to ruefulness and to dark laughter; there are poets who fruitfully challenge our intellectual capacities. But Christian Barter is that rarest of writers, the one who can make us react in all these ways, and often simultaneously." —Sydney Lea
ISBN: 9781942683353
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 184g
112 pages