Advance galleys to Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, New Yorker, NPR;
Review and feature article campaign to 50 publications, including poetry, Asian, mainstream;
25 copies to GoodReads and Library Thing;
Featured title at AWP, Boston Book Fair, Brooklyn Book Festival, ALTA, Association of Asian Studies conference;
Eblasts to creative writing, Chinese/Asian Studies departments;
Book tour in California and New England;
Social media campaign on FaceBook, Twitter;
Potential core text for World Literature, Comparative Literature, Creative Writing courses;
Ads in Chinese Literature Today, Poetry Flash.
Song Lin’s poems explore his sojourns in several countries, the natural world outside him, and his own inner landscape. His early imprisonment during the 1989 Tienanmen Square protests gave rise to the title poem, as well as a profound sense of yearning that pervades much of his work. He is a wanderer in the world and in the language of poetry, often finding beauty in others that are also on the move: birds, rivers, the wind. While his work is rooted in both contemporary and classical Chinese poetry, he incorporates American, French, and Latin-American literary traditions into his poems.
