Broken World

1. Finished books will be available for review copy mailings in January, which will help us secure media and bookseller interest in advance of publication. We'll actively seek print media and radio interviews to coincide with National Poetry Month. 2. Additional marketing efforts will include National Poetry Month sponsorship, an academic flier, and a large, pre-publication finished book review copy mailing to Jewish media outlets, all major newspapers, and poetics journals. 3. We'll promote the book at all major academic and library conferences. Tour: San Francisco, CA; New York, NY; Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN; Buffalo, NY; New Orleans, LA; Las Vegas, NV

"Few poets these days are publishing verse this musically alive."--The Boston Phoenix

“Poems as cool as they are passionate, as soft-spoken as they are indignant, and as fiercely Romantic as they are formally contained. . . . An exquisite collection!”—Marjorie Perloff

With musical grace critics have likened to that of Robert Creeley, Elizabeth Bishop, and William Carlos Williams, Joseph Lease mixes a storyteller’s rhythm with lyric beauty to create a collection filled with humor, political bite, and psychological intensity. In a country where “money has won everywhere,” but the essential promise of democracy still beckons, these poems uncover our troubled psyches and show us what it might mean to be “Free Again.”