This collection leaps into the dangerous currents where poetry and reli-gion meet, and enlivens the lexicon of traditional American Christian belief by testing its doctrines and language against contemporary experience. "Beyond the wonderful music of his lines . . . , what makes To the Green Man such an important and memor-able book is its enactment of a spiritual struggle to be at once at home in the world and astonished by it."-Alan Shapiro Mark Jarman is a professor of English at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. His book The Black Riviera won the Poets' Prize, and Questions for Ecclesiastes was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize.

*Total season's marketing budget of $15,000; individual book budget of $3,000. *Newsletter and catalog feature mailed to entire Sarabande database and to Jarman's personal contacts. * 2,000 brochures and 1,000 postcards mailed to MFA programs, bookstores, libraries, and Jarman's personal contacts. *Additional review copies sent to journals with a Christian spirituality focus. *Advanced reader's copies through Booksense Advanced Access Program. *Author tour in New York, Nashville, and Louisville.

About the Author
Mark Jarman is a professor at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. He is the author of eight books of poetry, most recently To the Green Man, published by Sarabande. His book The Black Riviera won the 1991 Poets' Prize. Questions for Ecclesiastes was a finalist for the 1997 National Book Critics Circle Award and won the 1998 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize.


Book Information
ISBN 9781932511031
Author Mark Jarman
Format Paperback
Page Count 88
Imprint Sarabande Books, Incorporated
Publisher Sarabande Books, Incorporated
Weight(grams) 155g
Dimensions(mm) 228mm * 152mm * 7mm