FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Mark Givens / 909-293-9270 / mark.givens@pelekinesis.com
Poems that traverse brutal terrain through which light, bent and at times nearly occluded, passes kaleidoscopically.
Title: The Underwater TypewriterAuthor: Marc Zegans
Category: Poetry
Publication Date: September 25, 2015
Pages: 136
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-938349-29-4
Suggested Retail Price: $22.95
Claremont, CA – June 13, 2015 – Pelekinesis is proud to announce the release of Marc Zegans' The Underwater Typewriter, a collection of poetry that immerses us in voice, bestowed by grace, in the face of cruelty, coercion, chance, betrayal and loss.
The Underwater Typewriter arrives as a collection of weathered shards, through which light and by implication love pass kaleidoscopically. Its shifting patterns reveal the variety and range demanded of a poet traversing brutal terrain, tempted by but refusing bitterness. Zegans’ poetry finds human possibility in the broken, and discovers life beyond wistful memory compiled in the collage of remaindered things. With language and metaphor beautiful and delicate, The Underwater Typewriter, a selke’s gift, draws us back to ourselves, as we journey through extraordinarily hard emotions to the beating heart of our connection with people and place. Listen closely as you read, for sound travels great distances under water.
The Underwater Typewriter by Marc Zegans will be available September 25, 2015 through Baker & Taylor, Bertrams, directly from the publisher's website, and in fine local bookstores worldwide.
The page at Pelekinesis for supplemental material is here: http://www.pelekinesis.com/catalog/marc_zegans-the_underwater_typewriter.html
About the author
Marc Zegans is the author of the poetry collection Pillow Talk and two spoken word albums, Marker and Parker and Night Work. He comes to The Underwater Typewriter through the bayous and backwaters of American poetry, having been the Narragansett Beer Poet Laureate, and a Poetry Whore with the New York Poetry Brothel—which Time Out New York described as “New York’s Sexiest Literary Event.” Marc has performed everywhere from the Bowery Poetry Club to the American Poetry Museum. As an immersive theater producer, he created the Boston Center for the Arts’ CycSpecific “Speak-Easy” and Salon Poetique: A Gathering of the “Tossed Generation.” He also has been MC and co-producer of The No Hipsters Rock ’n Roll Revue and co-producer, with Karen Lee, of Burlesque for Books. Marc lives near the coast in Northern California.
About the publisher
Pelekinesis is an independent book publishing company focusing on the development of literary-minded authors and artists by embracing the evolving publishing paradigm and creatively supporting the skills of these talented individuals. Full catalog and press material can be found at http://www.pelekinesis.com
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Supplemental Material
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