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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
In Other Times, Midnight, her debut collection, Andrea Ballou explores the aftermath of loss—death, divorce, and departures—and asks the toughest questions: how do we contend with grief and remorse, and where does the spirit go to wait out trauma?
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.
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
Paradise Close by Lisa Russ Spaar
Now Available in Paperback
“... a novel made of glass, possessing characteristics of both prose and poetry.”— The Adroit Journal
American Analects by Gary Young
“There’s no word for what Young does, only for what he accomplishes—the capturing of small, daily miracles.” —Dorianne Laux
Where Will We Live If the House Burns Down? by Allison Blevins
Winner of the 2023 Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award
“Allison Blevins guides us into the space between agency and pain with extraordinary intimacy.”—Cass Donish
Updates
We are thrilled to announce that The Beautiful Relations by Benjamin Gucciardi has won the 2025 Lexi Rudnitsky Editors’ Choice Award. Persea will publish The Beautiful Relations in Fall 2026.
Please join us in congratulating Ben, as well as Laurie Ann Guerrero, whose collection Redwork is this year’s runner-up.