Big news for Loose Leaves' next release, Year of the Poets by Jon Ballard! Here, we're revealing the cover, which is a happy marriage of sleek design and a typeface that harks back to those charmingly clunky typewriters the characters themselves might have used in the summer of 1976.
Kirkus Reviews has released advance praise. Highlights include:
In Ballard’s highly readable, character-driven debut novel, the summer of 1976 proves messy, seductive and life-changing for celebrated poet, wanderer and serial womanizer Arthur Honeyman and all who enter his orbit.
Ballard maintains his narrative’s robust energy, even when plunging lengthily into character-study mode. Over the course of sexual pairings and road trips as far afield as Mexico, lives intertwine on and off the farm, and everyone at the retreat—including pothead and religious college dropout Gideon and Charlie’s secretly far left–leaning girlfriend, Natalia—searches for (and finds to one extent or other), inspiration, affirmation or at least clarity of purpose.
A ... highly enjoyable debut novel.
Year of the Poets will be available for purchase in May. Read the entire Kirkus review here.
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