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Sponsoring a BOA Title BOA Editions, Ltd. Donor Options To help support publication of new titles, BOA Editions offers donors of $125 (or more) the option to be named as a contributor to books of their choice. For each $125 contributed, your name will be listed in the back of a book for our upcoming season. A $1,000 contribution will be acknowledged in all titles slated to publish in a given year, or up to 10 titles over the course of a 12 month period. [Due to production schedules, a $1,000 contribution received in April cannot be recognized in the first few titles published that particular year simply because the printing cycle will be complete for the early releases.] You may also specify that your donation remain anonymous, or you may wish to make an acknowledgement in honor/ memory of someone. For example: Janes Jones, in memory of her father Samuel L. Jones or John Smith, in honor of his daughter Sally Smith. Below are descriptions of the 2008 titles. Please help keep contemporary poetry in print by doing what you can to support these books. A) Nomina Nomina is a book of sonnets, most adhering to a traditional Petrarchan rhyme scheme. Far from a tidy closed form, Volkman's sonnets are volatile, sometimes violent instruments, resounding with struggle and shock. Karen Volkman was born in Miami and received her B.A. from New College in Sarasota, Florida, and an M.A. from Syracuse University. Her first book, Crash’s Law, was a National Poetry Series selection, published by W.W. Norton in 1996. Her second book, Spar, received the Iowa Poetry Prize and the 2002 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. B) The Boatloads Dan Albergotti’s first collection, The Boatloads, was selected by Edward Hirsch as winner of the 2007 A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize. Perhaps the most distinctive aspect of The Boatloads is its overt references to church and Christianity. Albergotti’s references are not mere proselytizing though. Instead, Albergotti manages to depict the struggles, joys, confusion, and striving of a young man coming to terms with his religious upbringing and making decisions about how that training will play out in his adult life. In his eyes, the path to salvation is crooked and meandering, but never broken. Dan Albergotti currently serves as poetry editor of storySouth and teaches at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, SC. C) The Fortieth Day The Fortieth Day by Kazim Ali takes its title from the various incarnations of that chronologically symbolic event: after forty days and forty nights the deluge receded, Jesus and Moses both wandered in the desert for forty days, after forty days—according to the Qur'an—God’s breath enters an embryo and imbues it with a spirit. The fortieth day, then, must be the last moment before deliverance, a moment in time when a supplicant or prophet or storm-beaten passenger knows there is no state “after,” but finally excepts the present state as a permanent one. D) Unlucky Lucky Days Inventive, disconcerting, and hilarious, these 73 tales of our Unlucky Lucky Days might well be termed Dr. Seuss for adults. They call to mind Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories as readily as they do Italo Calvino's Cosmicomics, Rikki Ducornet's Butcher's Tales and Woody Allen's most literary writing. Braced on the shoulders of the fabulists, fantasists, absurdists, surrealists and satirists who came before him, Daniel Grandbois dredges up impossible meanings from the mineral and plant kingdoms, as well as the animal, and serves them to us as if they were nothing more fantastic than a plate of eggs and ham. E) Elephants & Butterflies Elephants & Butterflies brings together the strengths of Alan Michael Parker's previous two collections with BOA. Combining the imaginative forays of The Vandals with the meditative considerations of Love Song with Motor Vehicles, the poems in Elephants & Butterflies employ surprise, song, and startling metaphor—while allowing complex philosophical and personal knowledge to simmer just below the surface of the lyric. Alan Michael Parker is the author of five collections of poems, Days Like Prose, The Vandals, Love Song with Motor Vehicles, A Peal of Sonnets, and, most recently, Elephants & Butterflies. He also published the novel Cry Uncle. He teaches at Davidson College, where he is Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing, and at Queens University, where he is Core Faculty in the low-residency M.F.A. program. (Descriptions forthcoming) F) Voices, poems by Lucille Clifton G) Glass Grapes, stories by Martha Ronk H) The Moon Makes Its Own Plea, poems by Wendy Mnookin I) The Heaven Sent Leaf, poems by Katy Lederer J) The Hymns of Job and Other Poems by Maya Bejerano, Translated from Hebrew by Tsipi Keller
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