Persea Books
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Amerigun: Poems
$17.00 Add to cartIn Amerigun, a stunning collection of loss and rediscovery, poet Anne Marie Macari revisits her brother Edward’s long-ago death by a self-inflicted gunshot. Interweaving and disentangling her own memo… [more below]
- Author: Macari, Anne Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0892556366
- Language: English
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The Hungriest Stars: Poems
$19.00 Add to cartWith language flush with and supercharged by Eros, Carey Salerno’s third book is a poet’s elegy to her uterus, her love letter penned in an overcrowded room to autonomy and desire. Having been debilit… [more below]
- Author: Salerno, Carey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0892556307
- Language: English
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Sofar: Poems
$18.00 Add to cartIn SOFAR, poet-naturalist Elizabeth Bradfield attends our current ecological and historic moment, her decades-long queer love, a life time of work on boats, and her body’s shifting currents with wry y… [more below]
- Author: Bradfield, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 0892556188
- Language: English
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All the Words I Can Remember Are Poems
$19.00 Add to cartAll The Words I Can Remember Are Poems challenges colonized ideas of history and truth, particularly in relation to Filipinx/a/o history and its colonization by the United States. Engaging with archiv… [more below]
- Author: Peñaloza, Michelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 0892556277
- Language: English
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An Optimism: Poems
$19.00 Add to cartHere is collection of poems about finding oneself in a life–an ordinary life that one could not have imagined–and making the decision to live it. Against our terribly ambivalent present–in which Bl… [more below]
- Author: Awkward-Rich, Cameron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0892556218
- Language: English
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Lost Cities: Poems
$17.00 Add to cartBrimming 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–ways of looking and l… [more below]
- Author: Robin, Valencia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 0892556153
- Language: English
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America Street: A Multicultural Anthology of Stamerica Street: A Multicultural Anthology of Stories
$29.95 Add to cartWelcome to America Street, where every story is as vital and unique as the friends, neighbors, and relatives we encounter every day. Here are fourteen stories about young people told by some of Americ… [more below]
- Author: Mazer, Anne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: May 12 2008
- ISBN10: 0892551909
- Language: English
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Glass Jaw
$17.00 Add to cartStriking and big-hearted, Glass Jaw depicts the grit and glamor of women’s boxing based on the poet’s time training as a fighter in New York City. Beginning on the ropes, fighting back against the lim
- Author: Tolchinsky, Raisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 71
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0892555793
- Language: English
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Poems of Paul Celan
$27.00 Add to cartThe peerless translations of this haunted and haunting Holocaust poet, including ten new poems and an illuminating essay by the translator. Paul Celan is one the twentieth century’s most essential poe… [more below]
- Author: Celan, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 366
- Publish Date: November 17 2002
- ISBN10: 089255276X
- Language: English
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Other Times, Midnight
$17.00 Add to cartIn 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,… [more below]
- Author: Ballou, Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0892556080
- Language: English
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Exploding Head
$17.00 Read moreThis collection of prose poems chronicles a woman’s childhood onset and adult journey through obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), which manifests in fearful obsessions and counting compulsions that i
- Author: Hoffman, Cynthia Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0892555777
- Language: English
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The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded: Poems
$17.00 Add to cartHaunted by the voices of those committed to the notorious Virginia State Colony, epicenter of the American eugenics movement in the first half of the twentieth century, this evocative debut marks the … [more below]
- Author: Brown, Molly McCully
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: March 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0892554789
- Language: English
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Poems of Nazim Hikmet
$19.95 Read moreA centennial volume, with previously unavailable poems, by Turkey’s greatest poet. Published in celebration of the poet’s one hundredth birthday, this exciting edition of the poems of the Nazim Hikmet… [more below]
- Series: Karen and Michael Braziller Books
- Author: Hikmet, Nazim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 17 2002
- ISBN10: 0892552743
- Language: English
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The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart: Poems
$17.00 Add to cartWhether in the title poem, spoken by those who lived longingly and vicariously through the famous missing aviator, or in “Circus Fire, 1944,” which intimately recounts a haunting New England tragedy, … [more below]
- Series: Karen and Michael Braziller Books
- Author: Calvocoressi, Gabrielle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 68
- Publish Date: April 25 2005
- ISBN10: 0892553154
- Language: English
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Rocket Fantastic: Poems
$17.00 Add to cartLike nothing before it, in Rocket Fantastic explores the landscape and language of the body in interconnected poems that entwine a fabular past with an iridescent future by blurring, with disarming vu
- Author: Calvocoressi, Gabrielle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 18 2018
- ISBN10: 0892554924
- Language: English
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Ominous Music Intensifying
$18.00 Add to cartIn poems that bring together traditional American patriotic songs and current American horrors–and in which Yeats’ famous apocalyptic figure of the Rough Beast takes a painting class, wears a spacesu… [more below]
- Author: Teague, Alexandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0892556064
- Language: English
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Border Vista: Poems
$15.95 Read moreBorder Vista intimately narrates the experience of being undocumented, or precariously documented, in America. In poems that consider migration as an ongoing process rather than a finite event, Anni L… [more below]
- Author: Liu, Anni
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 0892555459
- Language: English
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Bound
$18.00 Add to cartBound is a collection of poems that seeks to carve a space for Blackness and queerness in the world that isn’t defined by trauma or lack, where Black and queer folks can seriously play, can create and… [more below]
- Author: Arriola-Headley, Jubi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0892555785
- Language: English
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The Unquiet Grave: A Word Cycle by Palinurus
$35.00 Add to cartCyril Connolly (1903-1974) was one of the most influential book reviewers and critics in England, contributing regularly to The New Statesmen, The Observer, and The Sunday Times. His essays have been … [more below]
- Author: Connolly, Cyril
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 27 2005
- ISBN10: 089255410X
- Language: English
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The Good Thief
$17.00 Add to cartThe heralded debut collection of poems by the author of What the Living Do (Norton, 1997). Selected by Margaret Atwood as a winner in the 1987 Open Competition of the National Poetry Series, this uniq… [more below]
- Series: National Poetry #0
- Author: Howe, Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 54
- Publish Date: January 17 1988
- ISBN10: 0892551275
- Language: English
