Peach State

Peach State has its origins in Atlanta, Georgia, the authors hometown and an emblematic city of the New South, a name that reflects the American regions invigoration in recent decades by immigration and a spirit of reinvention. Focused mainly on food and cooking, these poems explore the citys 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.