The Architecture of Language

1. Bound galleys will be available for distribution and promotion at Book Expo and through the July 1, 2006 Consortium galley box. 2. Additional marketing will include wholesaler (Baker & Taylor and Brodart) and trade advertising (Library Journal, Publishers Weekly) and a BookSense Advance Access offer. Publicity efforts will include a large galley mailing focusing on radio producers, national glossies, African American lifestyle magazines, poetry and academic journals. 3. We'll promote the book during Black History month with a direct mail campaign focusing on libraries through the ALA and Ingram advertising. 4. Tour: Chicago, IL; San Francisco, CA; Phoenix, AZ; Taos, NM; New York, NY; Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN and many more cities TBA

Full of rhythm and big-breath lines, Troupe crafts a poetry of magnitude and awesome grace.“Troupe’s poems resemble Romare Bearden’s collages: muscular and colorful.”—North American Review In the Whitmanic tradition, Troupe’s poetry explodes from the page, capturing the spirit of America. Inspired by contemporary art, music, literature, and sports, The Architecture of Language dismantles the dangerously clichéd, wooden rhetoric saturating our national discourse and rebuilds the language in poems bursting with beauty, energy, and enough imaginative fire to light the way to the future.