Coming soon from Interbirth Books

Christian Peet’s THE NINES Book II: Pluto ~ Never Forget.

I’ve had this project in the works for a long (far too long) time, and I’m beyond excited to see the work into the world. Christian has shown real patience in remaining committed to my painfully slow progress (ever try watching sap run down a tree?), and I’m grateful and honored to work with him and his smart & humorous but ultimately urgent manuscript.

A couple weeks ago I traveled down to San Marcos, TX (225 miles south of Dallas) to team up with Clifton Riley and print the covers for the new book. We spent the better part of the morning collaborating on the design before working late into the night screen printing what, in my opinion, turned out to be a striking cover (click for a closer look).

I also had a chance to cut all the book board, so I’m in pretty good shape to push through the run. I’m working on cutting/folding everything, and I hope to have the project finished sometime next month. The edition will be 26 hardcovers (numbered and signed) and 50 softbacks. I haven’t settled on a price yet, but I’m striving to make it as reasonable as possible.

Again, I couldn’t be more excited to work on this book. It’s a gem and is sure to make a positive contribution to Interbirth’s slowly growing list of titles. Thanks, Christian!

Here is a brief author’s bio (taken from Christian’s web site: www.christianpeet.com):

Christian Peet is the author of a cross-genre collection of “postcards,” Big American Trip (Shearsman Books, 2009), as well as two chapbook-installments of his ongoing project, The Nines— Pluto: Never Forget, which is forthcoming from Interbirth Books, and The Nines (Book 1), which is published by from Palm Press. His work appears in magazines such as Action Yes and Denver Quarterly, and in anthology, A Best Of FENCE: The First Nine Years.

He is also the publisher and founding editor of Tarpaulin Sky Press, disseminating hybrid forms and innovative poetry and prose in trade paperback and hand-bound books as well as in literary journals in print and online.

An adjunct lecturer by choice (or so he says), he taught Poetry I & II, Creative Writing, and Landmarks of Literature at Brooklyn College and at Hunter College, for the City University of New York (CUNY), until moving to Vermont, where he teaches Creative Writing, Poetry, Women and Literature, and Intro to Literature at the Community College of Vermont, in addition to running Tarpaulin Sky Press and freelancing as a web and book designer. He received a BA from Bennington College, a MFA from Goddard College, and has driven across the country half a dozen times and camped in all but five states while living out of his car and assuming a variety of employee incarnations including sheet metal fabricator, goat milker, organic sprout grower, maintenance man, landscaper, and convenience store clerk.