Outskirts Press Announces Nothing More, the Latest Highly-Anticipated Poetry Book from Fallon, NV Author Walter Harris Rooks, Jr.
Las Vegas, NV, October 24, 2008 --(PR.com)-- Outskirts Press, Inc. has published Nothing More: Selected Notes From His Soul by Walter Harris Rooks, Jr., which is the author’s most recent book to date. The 6.14 x 9.21 paperback in the Poetry category is available worldwide on book retailer websites such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble for a suggested retail price of $12.95. The webpage at www.outskirtspress.com/NothingMore was launched simultaneously with the book’s publication.
About the Book (Excerpts & Info)
In the spirit of the great Langston Hughes, Walter Rooks’ Nothing More offers a revealing take on the African American experience. Collected here are more than sixty poems chronicling love, personal struggle, endurance and transition. Distinctly influenced by his twentieth century predecessors, Rooks nevertheless strikes out on his own, expressing the unique hopes, anxieties and experiences of a new generation of African American poets. In blues clubs and jazz joints, on the streets of Harlem and the shores of Key West, Rooks struggles to find his place in white America. The subjects are by turns intensely personal and sweepingly universal, touching on poverty, institutional racism and America’s slave history. Through it all is a strong empathy for the human condition in all its forms—the lovelorn drunkard, the poorly paid maid, the civil rights pioneer—and a firm sense in the dignity and beauty of man. A sense, as he says, that “Sun shines / On black bodies, / Gives hope to old sorrow, / Life to song we’ll sing tomorrow.”
Deftly constructed at 81 pages, Nothing More: Selected Notes From His Soul is being aggressively promoted to appropriate markets with a focus on the Poetry category. With U.S. wholesale distribution through Ingram and Baker & Taylor, and pervasive online availability through Amazon, Barnes & Noble and elsewhere, Nothing More meets consumer demand through both retail and library markets with a suggested retail price of $12.95.
Additionally, Nothing More can be ordered by retailers or wholesalers for the maximum trade discount price set by the author in quantities of ten or more from the Outskirts Press wholesale online bookstore at www.outskirtspress.com/buybooks
ISBN: 9781432731236
Format: 6.14 x 9.21 paperback
SRP: $12.95
For more information or to contact the author, visit www.outskirtspress.com/NothingMore
About the Author
Walter Rooks was born in Yuma, Ariz., in 1972. He lives in Nevada with his wife and children, where he is currently working on a fiction project.
About Outskirts Press, Inc.
Outskirts Press offers turn-key, custom book publishing services for authors seeking a cost-effective, fast, and flexible way to publish and distribute their books while retaining all their rights and full creative control. Available globally at www.outskirtspress.com and located on the outskirts of Denver, Colorado, Outskirts Press, Inc. represents the future of book publishing, today.
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About the Book (Excerpts & Info)
In the spirit of the great Langston Hughes, Walter Rooks’ Nothing More offers a revealing take on the African American experience. Collected here are more than sixty poems chronicling love, personal struggle, endurance and transition. Distinctly influenced by his twentieth century predecessors, Rooks nevertheless strikes out on his own, expressing the unique hopes, anxieties and experiences of a new generation of African American poets. In blues clubs and jazz joints, on the streets of Harlem and the shores of Key West, Rooks struggles to find his place in white America. The subjects are by turns intensely personal and sweepingly universal, touching on poverty, institutional racism and America’s slave history. Through it all is a strong empathy for the human condition in all its forms—the lovelorn drunkard, the poorly paid maid, the civil rights pioneer—and a firm sense in the dignity and beauty of man. A sense, as he says, that “Sun shines / On black bodies, / Gives hope to old sorrow, / Life to song we’ll sing tomorrow.”
Deftly constructed at 81 pages, Nothing More: Selected Notes From His Soul is being aggressively promoted to appropriate markets with a focus on the Poetry category. With U.S. wholesale distribution through Ingram and Baker & Taylor, and pervasive online availability through Amazon, Barnes & Noble and elsewhere, Nothing More meets consumer demand through both retail and library markets with a suggested retail price of $12.95.
Additionally, Nothing More can be ordered by retailers or wholesalers for the maximum trade discount price set by the author in quantities of ten or more from the Outskirts Press wholesale online bookstore at www.outskirtspress.com/buybooks
ISBN: 9781432731236
Format: 6.14 x 9.21 paperback
SRP: $12.95
For more information or to contact the author, visit www.outskirtspress.com/NothingMore
About the Author
Walter Rooks was born in Yuma, Ariz., in 1972. He lives in Nevada with his wife and children, where he is currently working on a fiction project.
About Outskirts Press, Inc.
Outskirts Press offers turn-key, custom book publishing services for authors seeking a cost-effective, fast, and flexible way to publish and distribute their books while retaining all their rights and full creative control. Available globally at www.outskirtspress.com and located on the outskirts of Denver, Colorado, Outskirts Press, Inc. represents the future of book publishing, today.
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Outskirts Press, Inc., 10940 S. Parker Rd - 515, Parker, Colorado 80134
http://outskirtspress.com 1-888-OP-BOOKS
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