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In the Betwixt
21st Century Short Stories
edited, with an introduction by Brice Particelli

17 stories and 2 comics, created by established and rising stars in American fiction and graphic narrative present characters of differing cultural and racial backgrounds, genders, sexuality, and ableness, some with intersectional identities and others affected past urban gentrification or the refuse of their rural town.  Each ane is striving to find a place in today's divided America. These masterful stories are bold, eye-opening, sometimes unsettling, never more necessary.

Included are Vanessa Hua, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Bryan Washington, Roxane Gay, Alice Hoffman, Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Akhil Sharma, Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Mister Loki, Rion Amilcar Scott, Maria Anderson, Phil Klay, Joy Baglio, Robert Anthony Siegel, Ryka Aoki, Bryan Hurt, Shivana Sookdeo, Casey Robb, and Nancy Fulda.

Paradise Close
A Novel
past Lisa Russ Spaar

In 1971, orphan Marlise Schade—fourteen, anorectic, and evicted from the psychiatric hospital her trust fund can no longer back up—finds herself alone in an ancestral home during a blizzard. Decades later, on the brink of Trump's America, threescore-something Tee Handel is shaken by an inexplicable visitation.
In Paradise Close, acclaimed poet Lisa Russ Spaar's masterful start novel, these ii seemingly unrelated tales entwine to show how the wages of the by are always with us, every bit are the unsafe and redemptive consequences of secrets confided and withheld.

"This breathtaking novel has the dark power of a fairy tale……I loved information technology."
—Joanna Rakoff

Coming in May

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Fatal
by Kimberly Johnson

"This is a brilliant book of well-wrought lines crafted in the absolutely original way for which Kimberly Johnson has become known and admired. I love these poems."
—Jericho Brown

Coming in May

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If In that location Are Any Heavens
A Memoir
by Nicholas Montemarano

On January half dozen, 2021, at the peak of the COVID-nineteen pandemic in America, while the U.Due south. Capitol is nether attack, the novelist Nicholas Montemarano drives half dozen hundred miles to see his female parent, who is hospitalized with COVID pneumonia and in a disquisitional state. For ten days he lives in a hotel minutes from the hospital, alternate between hope and helplessness. This is the story of those x days.

"A vivid, inventive volume that has made its own genre."—Tiana Clark

Coming in July

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Border Vista
past Anni Liu

Winner of the 2021 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize

"Anni Liu's vision never waivers as we are threaded through the complexities of memory, condition, and country. This is a masterful, singular debut."
—Janine Joseph

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CongraTulations

We are excited to denote that Date of Birth past Shawn R. Jones has won the 2022 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in Poetry!

Persea will publish Engagement of Birth in spring 2023.

Contempo Publications

Places I've Taken My Torso past Molly McCully Brown

A Kirkus Reviews Best Volume of 2020

In this "uncommonly wonderful collection of essays" (Rain Taxi), Molly McCully Chocolate-brown explores living within and beyond the limits of a body. Now in paperback and featuring an additional essay.

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Madrigalia past Lisa Russ Spaar

This career-spanning volume portrays in stunning manner Lisa Russ Spaar's exquisite obsessions: spiritual hunger, lingual pleasures, bodily disuse.

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X Marks the Dress: A Registry
by Kristina Marie Darling and Carol Guess

"While matrimony may be taking no prisoners in this collection, it's clear that the union of Darling and Judge was a perfect one. They produced a stunning, brilliant, and emotionally visceral feminist rumination"—Pleiades: A Periodical of New Writing

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Arrhythmia by Emily Van Kley

A tribute to queer friendship, these poems weave chronic grief (a damaged planet, social injustice) with the stab of a loved 1's sudden absence—of what happens to the vibrant particulars of a life when it ends.

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The Concluding Thing by Patrick Rosal

"The linguistic communication in these pages remains visceral, demotic, open up to all comers and capable of dandy aural effect…"
—Stephanie Burt, The New York Times Book Review

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The Man Grave by Christopher Salerno

Winner of the 2020 Lexi Rudnitsky Editor'southward Option Accolade

"Cristopher Salerno's The Man Grave grapples with masculinity in all its fraught and beautiful and frightening complexity, in poems that are as dazzlingly inventive as they are honed and finely wrought"
—Patrick Phillips, author of Elegy for a Broken Auto

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The Survival Expo past Caki Wilkinson

"If Gwendolyn Brooks and Wallace Stevens had a granddaughter who lived in the contemporary South, she might exist Caki Wilkinson. Her poetic genetics are simultaneously soulful and linguistic."
—Terrance Hayes

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Tributary past Carey Salerno

"The powerful second volume from Salerno considers a river's shape-shifting shallows, currents, sediments, and "swift debris," through which the poet tells stories of loss and restitution…. Salerno delivers a assuming, memorable, and capacious collection."

—Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)

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A Better Life by Randall Mann

"Mann uses his own history to interrogate the feel of American life beyond the cis, white, heteronormative chimera, and he imbues his questions with sense of humor and rhythm."

—Foreword Reviews

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More Truly and More Strange
100 Gimmicky American Cocky-Portrait Poems
edit by Lisa Russ Spaar

More Truly and More Strange collects astonishing self-portrait poems from the mid-twentieth century onward. Poets include John Ashbery, Robert Creeley, Rita Dove, Jorie Graham, W.S. Merwin, Frank O'Hara, Sylvia Plath, Mark Strand, Natasha Trethewey, and many more.

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