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Where New And Noteworthy Books Begin

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and Light (Graywolf Press, May 2022) by Jeffrey Yang. Fourth book, poetry collection. Agent: None. Editor: Jeff Shotts. Publicist: Claudia Acevedo-Quiñones. “Some nights, when the rabbit and I are both down on the floor playing tug-of-war with his toy carrot, he will suddenly freeze in one position and stop everything, as if a great breakthrough has finally arrived.” Animal Person (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, April 2022) by Alexander MacLeod. Second book, story collection. Agent: Susan Golomb. Editor: Jonathan Galassi. Publicist: Julia Judge. “The body is a disjointed poem of mixed metaphors and similes.” The Shape of Sound (Text Publishing, June 2022) by Fiona Murphy. First book, memoir. Agent: None. Editor: Penny Hueston. Publicist: Nikki Boltz. “These sentences—they—will begin having already been sentences somewhere else, and this will mark their afterlife, and this will be their debut.” Plans for Sentences (Wave Books, May 2022) by Renee Gladman. Fourteenth book, third interdisciplinary book. Agent: None. Editor: Heidi Broadhead. Publicist: Catherine Bresner. “The point of a pen opens a hole / into a soul’s dereliction.” Smoking the Bible (Copper Canyon Press, May 2022) by Chris Abani. Fifteenth book, eighth poetry collection. Agent: Ellen Levine. Editor: Michael Wiegers. Publicist: Ryo Yamaguchi. “The house looked living.” Memphis (Dial Press, April 2022) by Tara M. Stringfellow. First book, novel. Agent: Soumeya Bendimerad Roberts. Editor: Katy Nishimoto. Publicist: Michelle Jasmine.