Light Year
Book • 2026
Jennifer Wong's Light Year (2025) is a poetry collection that weaves images of domestic life, diasporic belonging, and cosmic space into meditations on time and transformation.
The poems explore mother-daughter relationships, silence, grief, and the small domestic scenes that carry deep emotional weight.
Wong uses concise, image-driven lines and occasional multilingual touches to render memory and identity in moments of intimacy.
The collection moves between the everyday—kitchens, pharmacies, dance lessons—and broader metaphors of sea and starlight to consider how histories shape selves.
Light Year balances personal specificity with themes accessible to broader readers, offering both elegiac and hopeful tones.
The poems explore mother-daughter relationships, silence, grief, and the small domestic scenes that carry deep emotional weight.
Wong uses concise, image-driven lines and occasional multilingual touches to render memory and identity in moments of intimacy.
The collection moves between the everyday—kitchens, pharmacies, dance lessons—and broader metaphors of sea and starlight to consider how histories shape selves.
Light Year balances personal specificity with themes accessible to broader readers, offering both elegiac and hopeful tones.
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Jennifer Wong, "Light Year" (Nine Arches Press, 2025)
