Publisher's Synopsis
*Book will debut at 2015 AWP in Minneapolis; author is planning a launch party.
*Blurbs from O'Keeffe experts: Christopher Merrill, editor of From the Faraway Nearby: Georgia O'Keeffe as Icon, and Laurie Lisle, author of Portrait of an Artist, the definitive biography of O'Keeffe. Also, blurb from poet Eleanor Wilner.
*Poems have been widely published, in two anthologies, as a broadside, and in journals including Beloit Poetry Journal, The Missouri Review, and Poet Lore. Will contact all journals in which she has published, as well as associated universities and reading series.
*Will also focus on museums that hold many of O'Keeffe's paintings and/or Stieglitz's photographs, including entities like the Museums of Modern Art in San Francisco and New York, the O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, and the Art Institute of Chicago.
*Author's website will include links to all of the images referenced by the poems, as well as online features of Jacobs' poems, accompanied by essays, reflections, and interviews with the author.
*Author is active in the queer community and should reach some readership through this channel. Poems from the book's "In the Canyon" sequence deal directly with LGBT issues.
*Author is Jewish and a number of poems deal with Jewish issues.
*Blurbs from O'Keeffe experts: Christopher Merrill, editor of From the Faraway Nearby: Georgia O'Keeffe as Icon, and Laurie Lisle, author of Portrait of an Artist, the definitive biography of O'Keeffe. Also, blurb from poet Eleanor Wilner.
*Poems have been widely published, in two anthologies, as a broadside, and in journals including Beloit Poetry Journal, The Missouri Review, and Poet Lore. Will contact all journals in which she has published, as well as associated universities and reading series.
*Will also focus on museums that hold many of O'Keeffe's paintings and/or Stieglitz's photographs, including entities like the Museums of Modern Art in San Francisco and New York, the O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, and the Art Institute of Chicago.
*Author's website will include links to all of the images referenced by the poems, as well as online features of Jacobs' poems, accompanied by essays, reflections, and interviews with the author.
*Author is active in the queer community and should reach some readership through this channel. Poems from the book's "In the Canyon" sequence deal directly with LGBT issues.
*Author is Jewish and a number of poems deal with Jewish issues.
