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Selected translations from Dante's Divine Comedy, accompanied by thirteen spectacular prints by Michael Mazur.
About the author
Robert Pinsky attended Rutgers and Stanford, where he held a Stegner Fellowship. He has taught classes in poetry at Wellesley, Berkeley, and currently at Boston University. Among his awards are the William Carlos Williams Prize, the Shelley Memorial Award, and the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. From 1997 to 2000 he was the U.S. Poet Laureate. Robert Pinsky attended Rutgers and Stanford, where he held a Stegner Fellowship. He has taught classes in poetry at Wellesley, Berkeley, and currently at Boston University. Among his awards are the William Carlos Williams Prize, the Shelley Memorial Award, and the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. From 1997 to 2000 he was the U.S. Poet Laureate. Mazur's work has been exhibited at MOMA, The Whitney, Brooklyn, and the Metropolitan museums. He was a faculty member at RISD, Brandeis University, and a visiting artist at Harvard's Carpenter Center. He is represented in New York by the Mary Ryan Gallery and in Boston, by the Barbara Krakow Gallery and in Provincetown at Albert Merola Gallery.
Summary
Selected translations from Dante's Divine Comedy, accompanied by thirteen spectacular prints by Michael Mazur.
Foreword
* Agni Magazine featured another version of collaboration in 2008 * Initiatives to focus on art lovers and critics * Academic initiative to teachers of classical poetry * Special initiative to book collectors * Chapbook has tremendous gift potential; will try to place chapbook in gift market, particularly for Christmas 2009 * Total season's marketing budget of $18,000; individual book budget of $3,000 * Newsletter and catalog feature mailed to contacts on Sarabande database as well as many contacts as Pinsky and Mazur provide * 2,000 postcards mailed to MFA programs, bookstores, and libraries as well as many contacts as Pinsky and Mazur provides * Internet marketing campaign to include announcement on Sarabande national listserv, as well as review copy mailing to online journals and blogs * Chapbook art will be available on Sarabande Website and other online venues
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Art Forum, Book Forum, Bomb Magazine, The New York Times Book Review and/or Arts Section, The Boston Review, Publisher's Weekly, Library Journal, Ploughshares, Harvard Review, The Georgia Review, Boston Sunday Globe, The Nation, London Review of Books
