Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ONE

THE RELENTLESS..........4
THE FEAR..........5
BUT FIRST..........6
THERE ARE NEW GAMES WE CAN PLAY..........7
CLOUD THEORY..........8
WE WERE SIMILAR IN THAT WAY..........10
THE VOCABULARIES..........11
I’M NO LONGER TROUBLED BY THE EXTRAVAGANCE..........12
ANOTHER SIMONY..........13
LOVE AND OTHER ACADEMIC EXERCISES..........14
I’VE ALREADY SAID TOO MUCH..........15
THE INTIMACIES..........16
ALL THE BOREDOMS IN THE WORLD..........17
THOUGH..........18
THE EXPERIMENTS THAT BROUGHT US TOGETHER..........19
THIS IS YOURS..........20
NOW I’LL BEGIN MAKING EXCUSES..........21
NOTES TAKEN DURING AN ARRHYTHMIA..........22
THE GUERDON..........23
THE PANDEMONIUM..........24
THE NATURE OF THE CORRESPONDENCE AND THE REQUIRED HEROICS..........25
I’M TELLING YOU THIS ANYWAY..........26
CUI BONO..........27
THERE WERE INDICATIONS THAT THIS WOULD HAPPEN..........28
QUI VIVE..........29
THE ENDING..........30

TWO

MY UNCANNY RESEMBLANCE TO A YOUNG SEAN CONNERY..........32
THE RING OF THE FISHERMAN..........33
MORTAL WISH..........34
THE LEGERDEMAIN..........35
THE DOOR..........36
RITUALS..........37
THE CURATOR OF CLOSETS..........38
DECEMBER..........39

THREE

THE NEW HEROES..........41
THE ACCORDION PLAYER'S WINDOW..........42
THAT SEAGULL..........43
THE PITY..........44
THE IMPLICATIONS..........45
I’VE CHANGED MY MIND ABOUT EVERYTHING..........46
I’M THE MUSEUM OF WHAT’S-LEFT-OF-US..........47
SHE EXPLAINED ME TO HER MOTHER USING LATINATE WORDS..........48
THE TAMING..........49
AND THEN EMPYREAN..........50
GENUS OF SMALL SOUNDS..........51
THE NEW SKILLS..........52
THESE WERE OUR BEST YEARS..........53
THE MAN IN THE MOON RETIRES..........54
THE CAIRN..........55
THE FOREST..........56
INSTEAD..........57

Promotional Information

Galleys available: national mailing to key review/media outlets 4-5 months prior to publication.

National print campaign: 100 finished books will be mailed to key review outlets, specifically targeting Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, The New York Time Book Review, The New Yorker, Poets & Writers Magazine, The Rumpus, Huffington Post Poetry, The San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, etc.

Will pitch author events to local bookstores where Bursky is known: Vroman's Bookstore Pen & Stationery Department (Pasadena, CA); Book Soup (West Hollywood, CA); Small World Books (Venice, CA); Skylight Books (Los Angeles, CA).

National advertising in Poets & Writers magazine, American Poets magazine, the Academy of American Poets newsletter, Rain Taxi, and Redactions.

Fall announcements will be submitted to Publishers Weekly.

Blurbs from acclaimed poets Stephen Dobyns and Mark Irwin.

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About the Author

Rick Bursky is the author of Death Obscura (Sarabande, 2010); The Soup of Something Missing (Bear Star Press, 2004), winner of the Dorothy Brunsmen Poetry Prize; and the chapbook, The Invention of Fiction (Hollyridge Press, 2005). He received his BFA from Art Center College of Design, and an MFA from Warren Wilson College. His work appears widely in such places as American Poetry Review, The Pinch, Gettysburg Review, Sycamore Review, Copper Nickle, Antioch Review, Laurel Review, Hotel Amerika, Southern Review, Conduit, Field, Iowa Review, and The Journal, among many others. Bursky currently lives in Los Angeles where he works in advertising and teaches poetry in the UCLA Extension Writer's Program.

Reviews

"Bursky's collection of poems, titled I'm No Longer Troubled by the Extravagance, kept me moving in all sorts of directions. His facile accession of language, banal if used unequivocally, is an exploitation of eccentricities sprinkled with the right dose of humility and charm." -Heath Bowen, New Pages "Rick Bursky's breezy, surreal narratives are bristling with a 'Qui vive' alertness to the pedestrian world and its aftershocks all the way to eternity. I'm wonderfully troubled by these poems, their extravagances and great diversions through which we often plunge recklessly toward truth and all perils of the heart: 'Love without fear is meaningless, it's a machine / like grief, always in the early stages of invention.'" -Mark Irwin "Rick Bursky is blessed with a complicated and eccentric imagination, and the ability to write pellucidly uncomplicated sentences. These gifts are joined together in his new book I'm No Longer Troubled by the Extravagance where each poem is startling in its strangeness and weird beauty. Other gifts are Bursky's constant ability to surprise, as well as his ability to create an amalgam of the serious, comic, and fantastic, turning many of his poems into delirious journeys. The book is a pleasure to read." -Stephen Dobyns