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April 18, 2007

"The Best Words In Their Best Order"

Halfway through National Poetry Month, we’re pleased to see that FSG’s new blog initiative is looking fantastic! Launched on April 1, the FSG poetry blog, The Best Words In Their Best Order, was created to celebrate FSG’s legendary roster of poets. FSG kicked off the month by distributing an “unusual” cell phone ring tone – an original couplet by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon that you can download here and listen to here:

“It’s only me trying to get through
I’d really love to talk to you”

The blog (which is named after a quote from a great writer) features wonderful posts by publicist and events coordinator Ami Greko, and focuses on poetry as a spoken art form. How so, you wonder? Well, we were able to assemble a wonderful collection of MP3 recordings of FSG poets introducing and reading their own poetry, as well as that of backlist poets. As FSG’s press release points out, “The matchups chosen by these poets are remarkable: Robert Pinsky reads Elizabeth Bishop’s At the Fish Houses, C.K. Williams reads Robert Lowell’s For the Union Dead, Seamus Heaney reads The Thought Fox by Ted Hughes, Derek Walcott reads Joseph Brodsky’s Lullaby.” New audio clips are available almost every day to stream, to download, and even via podcast. Also, we worked with FSG-designed broadsheets for two poems to create desktops and screensavers that visitors can download. The blog’s a wonderful treat, but it will only last so long – until April 30, actually – so visit www.fsgpoetry.com sometime soon. Enjoy!

Posted by Meredith on April 18, 2007 at 09:40 PM in Blogs, Marketing/Advertising, Online News, Podcasting | Permalink

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Books

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Nathaniel Philbrick: In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
From Meredith: If you can handle the grisly details, this book offers a rich account of the adventure and tragedy that inspired the ending of Melville’s Moby Dick. Philbrick’s version of this famous true story is packed with fascinating historical anecdotes, medical facts, and psychology that truly bring home what happened to the crew aboard the Nantucket whaleship sunk by a sperm whale in the South Pacific in the early 1800s.
Ivan Turgenev: Sketches from a Hunter's Album
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Steven Levy: The Perfect Thing: How the iPod Shuffles Commerce, Culture, and Coolness
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