_American Hiroshima_ publication news

It's hard to believe, but the first part of my forthcoming poetry ms. "If the radiance of a thousand suns": Songs of the American Hiroshima goes to the publisher tomorrow. The publisher and I decided to stagger the workload and typeset in installments. This helps me out actually (and moves up the release date targets by about six months, from Q1 2009 to sometime in the fall of this year) and allows me to keep ahead on the edits for sections II and III.

Needless to say, I'm very excited about this project. A few close friends who have seen the preliminary galleys have expressed equal amounts of enthusiasm and anticipation. Once I have more information in terms of cost, release date, and release part(ies), I'll be sure to post here.

Also, news on Germany will be forthcoming this week (once I've had a chance to breathe!)