Major galley campaign, with galleys available for sales force by request, major media, poetry media, autistic-, neurodivergent- and disabled-led media, booksellers and librarians; digital galleys available for download on Edelweiss Dedicated publicist Jenara Nerenberg, who is the founder of The Neurodiversity Project and author of Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World that Wasn't Designed For You and who has been conducting outreach to writers covering books by neurodivergent authors as well as folx in the neurodiverse, autism, and disabled communities Major media outreach for book and Multiverse series, positioning this title as a groundbreaking work of poetry from a new and exciting voice, particularly in the context that the market is focused in the genres of memoir and nonfiction when it comes to representing neurodivergent and autistic voices Major bookseller campaign, with a focus on East Coast and University stores, for pickup in disability studies courses Marketing collaboration with a professional consultant who identifies as neurodivergent, autistic and/or disabled and who will amplify outreach to these communities Cover reveal and preorder newsletter campaign in collaboration with East Coast bookstore Major marketing campaign in both print and digital formats to engage readers and book buyers and invite them into the author's voice and perspective Newsletter promotion via the publisher to readers, sales and academic lists of more than 30,000 contacts Advertising in Academy of American Poets, Poets & Writers, Library Journal, NAIBA, and Autism Society of Minnesota Major virtual launch in New York City

In this remarkable debut, which marks the beginning of Multiverse—a literary series written and curated by the neurodivergent—Hannah Emerson’s poems keep, dream, bring, please, grownd, sing, kiss, and listen. They move with and within the beautiful nothing (“of buzzing light”) from which, as she elaborates, everything jumps.

In language that is both bracingly new and embracingly intimate, Emerson invites us to “dive down to the beautiful muck that helps you get that the world was made from the garbage at the bottom of the universe that was boiling over with joy that wanted to become you you you yes yes yes.” These poems are encounters—animal, vegetal, elemental—that form the markings of an irresistible future. And The Kissing of Kissing makes joyously clear how this future, which can sometimes seem light-years away, is actually as close, as near, as each immersive now. It finds breath in the woods and the words and the worlds we share, together “becoming burst becoming / the waking dream.”

With this book, Emerson, a nonspeaking autistic poet, generously invites you, the reader, to meet yourself anew, again, “to bring your beautiful nothing” into the light.