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Über den Autor / die Autorin
Ralph's work has appeared in Conduit, Mudfish, Willow Springs, The American Poetry Review, The McSweeney's Book of Poets Picking Poets, and Thus Spake the Corpse: An Exquisite Corpse Reader. Currently, he teaches at Hopkinsville Community in rural western Kentucky. His country-rock ensemble, Brett Eugene Ralph's Kentucky Chrome Revue, can be heard in seedy dives throughout the South.
Zusammenfassung
A debut collection that sings with gutbucket colloquialisms, hallucinatory interludes, and Kentucky's storytelling tradition.
Vorwort
*Mailings to McSweeney's and Exquisite Corpse readership *Initiative to reach readers of Southern literature through the Oxford American and the Conference for the Book in Oxford, Mississippi *Initiative to reach other readers through Ralph's music fan base. Blurb from well-known folk artist Will Oldham. *Blurb from filmmaker Harmony Korine: "Brett Eugene Ralph can surely write like the dickens and I don't mean Charles. He's a true beast of a man with insight and beauty to spare." *Total season's marketing budget of $18,000; individual book budget of $3,000 *Internet marketing to involve e-mailing announcements to Sarabande listserv and listing title on our Website. Additional review copy mailing to blog reviewers. *Newsletter and catalog feature mailed to entire Sarabande database as well as to Ralph's contacts *2,000 postcards mailed to MFA programs, bookstores, libraries, as well as to Ralph's contacts *Will submit to all qualifying book prizes
Zusatztext
Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Rain Taxi, The Believer, Oxford American, The Southern Register, Octopus, Poetry
