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However and Wherever We Are
Poems from Persea’s First Fifty Years
To celebrate Persea’s 50th Anniversary, we are proud to present However and Wherever We Are, a sampling of more than fifty poets essential to the press’s identity and signifying its successful quest to become a vital force in contemporary poetry, beginning at its founding in 1975.
Among the poets are Cameron Awkward-Rich, Paul Blackburn, Elizabeth Bradfield, Molly McCully Brown, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Paul Celan, Mitchell L. H. Douglas, Sarah Gambito, Kimberly Grey, Ramon Guthrie, Nazim Hikmet, Cynthia Marie Hoffman, Marie Howe, Kimberly Johnson, Osip Mandelstam, Sandra Meek, Les Murray, Thylias Moss, Laura Riding, Patrick Rosal, Lisa Russ Spaar, and Alexandra Teague.
NeW & Forthcoming
An Optimism by Cameron Awkward-Rich
Against our terribly ambivalent present—in which Black, trans, and other minoritized forms of life seem at once more possible than ever and, also, relentlessly under attack—An Optimism gives us poems in search of ways to survive—and even thrive.
The Hungriest Stars by Carey Salerno
With language flush with and supercharged by Eros, Carey Salerno's The Hungriest Stars is a poet’s elegy to her uterus, her love letter penned in an overcrowded room to autonomy and desire.
All the Words I Can Remember Are Poems by Michelle Peñaloza
“This collection is remarkable. It overflows with medicine and inspiration”
—Jen Soriano
SOFAR by Elizabeth Bradfield
“Some poets take nonhuman nature as just one more subject; for Bradfield, however, plants and animals—Atlantic seascapes, tropical forests, marine mammals, migratory seabirds—give most of her poems their reason to exist...”
—Stephanie Burt, American Poet
Lost Cities by Valencia Robin
Brimming with music, bursting with flora, the poems in Valencia Robin’s second collection are both a walking tour of local neighborhoods and a journey into space and across time.
Azucena by M. de Gracia Concepción
M. De Gracia Concepción explores the affective landscape of the Philippine diaspora in this classic collection, originally published in 1925.
NEWS & Updates
We are crushed to learn of the passing of Jubi Arriola-Headley, an extraordinary poet and human. Jubi was a light to all, a person of unmatched warmth and generosity. His poems were bracingly and unapologetically Black and queer, and yet they provided a space for anyone—everyone—to bask, revel, and hope. We are so proud to have worked with Jubi and to have published his glorious second collection, Bound. Rest in power, beautiful soul.
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Through 10/31 we are accepting entries for the Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in Poetry, open to self-identified women. The winner gets publication, $1,000, and an expenses paid, six-week residency at Civitella Ranieri Foundation in a 15th C. Italian castle.