All Soul Parts Returned

Galleys available: national mailing to key review/media outlets 4-5 months prior to publication. National advertising: Poets & Writers, 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, PBS Newshour, NPR, etc. Additional galley review copies sent to The Kenyon Review, Georgia Review, and Image Magazine. Outreach to bloggers, reviewers and online outlets for category features, including Buzzfeed, Bustle, etc. for such themes as theology and literature. Buy-ins to relevant academic conferences, trade shows, and publications: American Library Association Annual Meeting, CBSD Sales and Academic catalogs, etc. Fall announcements will be submitted to Publishers Weekly. Online/social media campaign: Extensive promotion through BOA's website and blog; Facebook (6,600+ followers), Twitter (6,700+ followers), Instagram (1,700+ 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 Beasley’s academic contacts, bookstore contacts, and literary bloggers. Electronic newsletter feature will be emailed to BOA's database of 7,100+ 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 2018 in Tampa, FL, where he will have an author signing. Plans for a multi-city book tour in the West Coast, including places such as Seattle, WA; Portland, OR; and San Francisco, CA; and additional cities in the South, including places such as Atlanta, GA; Decatur, GA; Raleigh, NC; Asheville, NC; Durham, NC; and Chapel Hill; NC. Possible joint readings with Norman Finklestein (University of Iowa Press) Promotion through the author's social media platforms and website: https://brucebeasley.net/

In this rich continuation of Beasley's soul-quest, Gnostic Gospels collide with shaman belief, Buddhist treatises, Schopenhauer's philosophical nihilism, and fatherhood.

When the Gnostic Gospels collide with new age spiritualism, the Oxford Happiness Test, and treatises on Buddhist practice, we know we're in the territory of a Bruce Beasley collection. Alternately devout and heretical, Beasley—known for his intense and continuing soul-quest through previous award-winning books—interrogates the absurdities, psychic violence, and spiritual condition of twenty-first century America with despair, philosophic intelligence, and piercing humor.

Bruce Beasley is the author of eight collections of poetry, including Theophobia (BOA, 2012). The winner of numerous literary awards and fellowships, he lives in Bellingham, WA, where he is a professor of English at Western Washington University.