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From takeoff to landing, this anthology is about flying and the culture surrounding this precarious method of transportation. Includes contributions by Diane Ackerman, Margaret Atwood, Albert Goldbarth, Lee Martin, Marilyn Nelson, Naomi Shahib Nye, and a host of others.
About the author
Taylor is the author of two collections of poetry, Selected Dreams from the Animal Kingdom (Zoo Press, 2003), and Curios (Sarabande Books, 2000) as well as a chapbook, Burning, for which she received the Portlandia Prize. Taylor is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize. She currently teaches literature and writing classes in Los Angeles, and is the editor of POOL: A Journal of Poetry. Brown recently graduated from the M.F.A. at VT College and is working on a collection of short stories with grant help from the Kentucky Foundation for Women. She studied English Literature at Oxford University as an English Speaking Union Scholar and was the editorial assistant for Hunter S. Thompson in 1997. Her work has been featured in The Writer's Chronicle and Mammoth Books' 2003 Sudden Stories anthology. She currently lives in Louisville where she is the Director of Development and Marketing at Sarabande.
Summary
The perfect flying companion: an anthology of poems, stories and essays on flying.
Foreword
*Total season's marketing budget of $15,000; individual book budget of $3,000. *Newsletter and catalog feature mailed to entire Sarabande database and to the personal contacts of Brown and Taylor. * 2,000 brochures and 1,000 postcards mailed to MFA programs, bookstores, libraries, and the personal contacts of Brown and Taylor. *Additional review copies sent to magazines with a focus on air travel/science. Special focus on in-flight magazines and airport bookstores. *Advanced copies available through Booksense Advanced Access program.
