Publisher Description

"Fragment of the Head of a Queen makes it clear why Cate Marvin is becoming one of our essential poets."--Rodney JonesCate Marvin's new poems, their wrought music, unblinking focus, and hard-edged sensuality, are wreathed with an entirely different silence than her first collection. The brokenness and loss of the fragmented queen--seeming to rise up through centuries--is their tutelary spirit.Cate Marvin is the author of World's Tallest Disaster, awarded the 2000 Kathryn A. Morton Prize by Robert Pinsky and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award (2002). She teaches creative writing in Staten Island, New York.

Author Biography

Marvin's first book, World's Tallest Disaster (Sarabande, 2002) was awarded the 2001 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry by Robert Pinsky and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award (2002). Her poems have appeared in New England Review, The Antioch Review, The Paris Review, The Georgia Review, and Ploughshares, among others. She is a creative writing professor in Staten Island,

Promotional

*Total season's marketing budget of $18,000; individual book budget of $3,000 *Newsletter and catalog feature mailed to entire Sarabande database and to Marvin's personal contacts *2000 postcards mailed to MFA Programs, bookstores, libraries, Legitimate Dangers mailing list, AWP mailing list, and Marvin's personal contacts *Targeted review copy mailing to magazines and journals interested in new poetry and those who reviewed Legitimate Dangers and World's Tallest Disaster *Ad media in The American Poetry Review, Poetry, Poets & Writers, and AWP Chronicle

Long Description

"Fragment of the Head of a Queen makes it clear why Cate Marvin is becoming one of our essential poets."--Rodney JonesCate Marvin's new poems, their wrought music, unblinking focus, and hard-edged sensuality, are wreathed with an entirely different silence than her first collection. The brokenness and loss of the fragmented queen--seeming to rise up through centuries--is their tutelary spirit.Cate Marvin is the author of World's Tallest Disaster, awarded the 2000 Kathryn A. Morton Prize by Robert Pinsky and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award (2002). She teaches creative writing in Staten Island, New York.

Description for Sales People

*Co-editor of highly controversial and successful Legitimate Dangers anthology *First collection now in fourth printing *Well connected with thirty-something academic community *Ambitious and energetic personality

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