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List of contents
1
Questions About Butterflies
Fooling the Buffalo
Trompe L’Oeil
Moose in Snow
D.F.W.
Remember It Wrong
Proof
Why Maggots
Flipbook
American Water
Mosul
2
Everything I’m About to Tell You Actually Happened
Self-Portrait with Baby Possum
I Made a Door
At the Post Office
Supermarkets This Large
Panoramic
Obituary
Kindergarten
Snowman
Hornet’s Nest
Closer
3
Man with Swatter
Victory Song
Challenging Mud (1955)
Doomed (1975)
Retirement Home Melee at the Salad Bar
The Body You’re Suited-up In
Phantom Limb
Married And
Hangover
Housefly
4
The Pompous Man
Mosh
Against Erosion
Head Case
Velvet
On Aggression
Fear and Logic
Road Trip
The Big Nothing, or the Gap Between David Letterman’s Teeth
About the author
David Hernandez: David Hernandez’s poetry collections include Always Danger (Southern Illinois University Press, 2006), winner of the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry, and A House Waiting for Music (Tupelo Press, 2003). His poems have appeared in Field, Ploughshares, The Threepenny Review, The Missouri Review, AGNI and The Southern Review. He is also the author of two YA novels, No More Us for You and Suckerpunch, both published by HarperTeen. David lives in Long Beach and is married to writer Lisa Glatt. Visit his website at www.DavidAHernandez.com.
Summary
Hernandez' third collection is blunt and undeceived. His odes to mortality are laced with wit and sadness rising like helium.
Foreword
$3000 marketing and publicity budget
Advertising in Poets & Writers, Writer's Chronicle, Rain Taxi Review of Books
Promotion on the author's website (http://www.davidahernandez.com/)
Publicity and promotion through the author's contacts
Newsletter and catalog feature mailed to contacts on Sarabande database as well as contacts Hernandez provides
200 postcards mailed to Hernandez's contacts
Internet marketing campaign to include announcement on Sarabande national listserve as well as review copy mailing to online journals and blogs
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"Under all the surfaces, is where these zany, ever-present poems roam. You have to pay close attention, reading, to catch up to the riddle and its revelation here. Hernandez is not fooling around, but this book brilliantly fools with our expectations and inability to focus on what's in front of us."
--Carol Muske-Dukes, The Huffington Post
