For more information on the published version, visit University of Pittsburgh Press's Website. Peach State was named to the 2022 list of “Books All Georgians Should Read” by the Georgia Center for the Book.

Su, Adrienne. Peach State. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021.

Peach State has its origins in Atlanta, Georgia, the author’s hometown and an emblematic city of the New South, a name that reflects the American region’s invigoration in recent decades by immigration and a spirit of reinvention. Focused mainly on food and cooking, these poems explore the city’s transformation from the mid-twentieth century to today, as seen and shaped by Chinese Americans. The poems are set in restaurants, home kitchens, grocery stores, and the houses of friends and neighbors. Often employing forms—sonnet, villanelle, sestina, palindrome, ghazal, rhymed stanzas—they also mirror the constant negotiation with tradition that marks both immigrant and Southern experience.

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