While Percival Fell
Release date: February 1, 2026. Preorders are now open!
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“Tania Langlais’ Pendant que Perceval tombait draws from overlapping sources: literary fiction, literary biography, and a third voice which enters subtly, the voice of the poet. This book-length poem occurs over the course of a single day and encompasses both the day of Woolf’s suicide and the death of the character Percival from Woolf’s novel The Waves. I have read nothing else like it.”
—From the introduction by translator Jessica Cuello
Bio
Jessica Cuello is the recipient of the 2025 Adele and Robert Schiff Nonfiction Prize from The Cincinnati Review. Her newest poetry book, Feral, is forthcoming from JackLeg Press in 2027, and her first volume of translations, While Percival Fell by Tania Langlais, a book-length poem about Virginia Woolf’s last day, appeared in 2026. She is also the author of Liar, selected by Dorianne Laux for The 2020 Barrow Street Book Prize, and three other collections. Cuello has been awarded The Nina Riggs Poetry Prize, two CNY Book Awards, The Washington Prize, The New Letters Poetry Prize, and The New Ohio Review Poetry Prize. In 2014 she was the recipient of The Decker Award from Hollins University for outstanding secondary teaching. Her work has been supported by a 2025 Saltonstall Fellowship and a 2023 NYSCA Artist Grant. She is poetry editor at Tahoma Literary Review and teaches public school in Central NY.
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“What Jessica Cuello knows could save us from ourselves.”
—Katie Ford, author of Blood Lyrics
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