Galley mailing to key reviewers and media outlets 4-5 months prior to publication.<

Advanced review copies and press materials sent to targeted list of 150-200 reviewers. Additional review copies available by request: [email protected].

National advertising: Poets & Writers, American Poets, and the Academy of American Poets newsletter.

Outreach to online media and bloggers including BuzzFeed, Bustle, Book Riot, Literary Hub, etc. for features on the anniversary of the Kent State University shootings, the Jackson State University Shootings, the Vietnam War, Latinx American history, etc.

Buy-ins to relevant academic conferences, trade shows, and publications: American Library Association Annual Meeting, CBSD Sales, and Academic catalogs, etc.

Fall book announcements submitted to Publishers Weekly.

Online/social media campaign: Extensive promotion through BOA's website, blog, e-newsletter (7,400+ subscribers), Facebook (7,000+ followers), Twitter (9,000 followers), Instagram (2,500+ followers), and Pinterest (840+ followers) accounts.

Full-page feature in in-house catalog.

E-postcards will be sent to BOA’s academic contacts, reviewer contacts, bookstore contacts, and literary bloggers.

Simultaneous ebook and print publication. Ebook ISBN will be included on all press materials, author and publisher websites, and whenever print ISBN is listed.

Possible event at the Wick Poetry Center at Kent State to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the shootings at Kent State University in 1970.

Author plans to coordinate events in conjunction with CantoMundo and the Poetry Coalition. Author appearances planned for AWP 2020, the American Studies Association conference in July 2020, and the Latina/o Studies Association conference in November 2020.

Author has hired freelance publicist Nicole Dewey to assist with coordinating event pitches and interviews as part of the promotional campaign for the book.

6-city national author tour in development.

Promotion through author’s website: https://www.deborahparedez.com/

A Blessing the Boats Selection
A New York Times Books New & Notable Poetry Book
One of Big Other's "Most Anticipated Small Press Books of 2020"
On The Rumpus's list of "What To Read When 2020 Is Just Around the Corner"

In the tradition of women as the unsung keepers of history, Deborah Paredez’s second poetry collection tells her story as a Latina daughter of the Vietnam War.

The title refers to the year 1970—the “year of the Metal Dog” in the lunar calendar—which was the year of the author’s birth, the year her father prepared to deploy to Vietnam along with many other Mexican-American immigrant soldiers, and a year of tremendous upheaval across the United States. Images from iconic photographs and her father’s snapshots are incorporated, fragmented, scrutinized, and reconstructed throughout the collection as Paredez recalls untold stories from a war that changed her family and the nation.

In poems and lamentations that evoke Hecuba, the mythic figure so consumed by grief over the atrocities of war that she was transformed into a howling dog, and La Llorona, the weeping woman in Mexican folklore who haunts the riverbanks in mourning and threatens to disturb the complicity of those living in the present, Paredez recontextualizes the historical moments of the Vietnam era, from the arrest of Angela Davis to the haunting image of Mary Ann Vecchio at the Kent State Massacre, never forgetting the outcry and outrage that women’s voices have carried across time.

In the tradition of women as the unsung keepers of history, Deborah Paredez’s second poetry collection tells her story as a Latina daughter of the Vietnam War.

The title refers to the year 1970—the Year of the Metal Dog in the lunar calendar—which was the year of the author’s birth, the year her father prepared to deploy to Vietnam along with many other Mexican-American immigrant soldiers, and a year of tremendous upheaval across the United States. Images from iconic photographs and her father’s snapshots are incorporated, fragmented, scrutinized, and reconstructed throughout the collection as Paredez recalls untold stories from a war that changed her family and the nation.

In poems and lamentations that evoke Hecuba, the mythic figure so consumed by grief over the atrocities of war that she was transformed into a howling dog, and La Llorona, the weeping woman in Mexican folklore who haunts the riverbanks in mourning and threatens to disturb the complicity of those living in the present, Paredez recontextualizes the Vietnam era, from the arrest of Angela Davis to the haunting image of Mary Ann Vecchio at the Kent State Massacre, never forgetting the outcry and outrage that women’s voices have carried across time.