Abode - by Jun-Long Lee (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

In Abode, Jun-long Lee explores homes both material and interior, lost and rediscovered; his poems are excavations of nested domestic spheres furnished by ruin and decay. Lee takes readers through hallucinatory geographies, plant-haunted spaces, and dreamlike corridors flooded with water and light, accompanied by an ever-changing subject that cannot make itself feel at home in its body, its country, or its language.

Review Quotes

"The interconnected poems in Jun-long Lee's striking debut collection, Abode, explore the challenge of feeling at home - culturally and spiritually, in the body, and perhaps most poignantly, in language - in fresh and sometimes freaky ways. From organic (forest, caves, the sea) to architectural (doors, rooms, the cathedral) to in-between 'haunted structures' like the grave, images and lines move associatively, led by sound to playful and hallucinatory effect, reflecting and evoking discomfort."

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