Once in a while a publisher gets to shout: A pre-order offer. Stephanie Young spent a couple of years-and-counting, acquiring great writing from over 100 Bay Area poets for this first-of-a-kind anthology, 496 pages of what Stephanie calls "21st century landscape portraiture." Not that the pieces are only about San Francisco, but all together BAY POETICS captures tableaux of Northern California poets making sense out of their craft based in a region haunted by poetries, present and past. Faux releases the anthology in less than a month, before May. The excitement is palpable, building so fast we're expecting a nationwide readership for this collection of amazing work. We're ready now to offer BAY POETICS as a pre-order item at the Faux website. If you order now, you'll get yours before it hits the bookstores, and you pay only $23 for the collection, which along with shipping and handling, brings the total to the list price, $29 (effectively waiving cost of S & H). This offer expires when the anthology leaves the printer's -- so (as they say) now is your chance. First notice here.