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Let the Moon Wobble
In poems born of intense loneliness, grief, anger, and uncertainty at a convergence of a raging pandemic, a worsening climate crisis, and numerous global uprisings, Ally Ang’s Let the Moon Wobble asks and seeks to answer the What makes the end of the world worth surviving?
Let the Moon Wobble considers multiple speakers’ journeys through the COVID-19 pandemic, the climate crisis, and the rise of fascism. With humor, lyricism, and endearing absurdity, Ang uses varied forms and poetic traditions to process feelings of helplessness and uncertainty. These poems ache for connection and lineage in a time of unrelenting isolation, plumbing the depths of grief and rage against the systems and institutions that aim to repress and kill queer people of color.
Coursing through Let the Moon Wobble is the deep desire for wildness, freedom from convention and constraint, and to be seen. The speaker refuses erasure, often taking up so much space that they're impossible to ignore. Ultimately, we arrive at a place of hope and possibility where what's "freshly broken" can give way to blooming. Ang's debut is a testament to the ways queer joy and community can fuel resistance and allow us to imagine radical new ways of being.
Let the Moon Wobble considers multiple speakers’ journeys through the COVID-19 pandemic, the climate crisis, and the rise of fascism. With humor, lyricism, and endearing absurdity, Ang uses varied forms and poetic traditions to process feelings of helplessness and uncertainty. These poems ache for connection and lineage in a time of unrelenting isolation, plumbing the depths of grief and rage against the systems and institutions that aim to repress and kill queer people of color.
Coursing through Let the Moon Wobble is the deep desire for wildness, freedom from convention and constraint, and to be seen. The speaker refuses erasure, often taking up so much space that they're impossible to ignore. Ultimately, we arrive at a place of hope and possibility where what's "freshly broken" can give way to blooming. Ang's debut is a testament to the ways queer joy and community can fuel resistance and allow us to imagine radical new ways of being.
100 pages, Paperback
Published November 11, 2025
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October 23, 2025
I did that!
January 18, 2025
Ally Ang’s poems are made of houseplants and melatonin, leather and bloodstains, fresh fruit and rumpled bedsheets. They assert queer self-creation on the page in a poetic voice that is at once expansive and precise. Let the Moon Wobble is a striking, impressive first collection that obliterated me. I am so grateful to Genevieve Hartman & Alice James Books for the digital galley, which I won't quote from just yet, although I'm dying to. Let the Moon Wobble will be available November 1 and you can preorder here: https://www.alicejamesbooks.org/books...
October 30, 2025
When this collection opened with a Kim Hyesoon epigraph, I knew it was going to slap. And it delivered: eroticism, anger, Madness, violent & brittle hope. Ally Ang shepherds readers expertly through every nuance of feeling that has taken up space in our hearts for the last half-decade and more. I feel alive.
January 18, 2026
Second book of poems I've read (funny enough by the same talented author). I thought the writing was very captivating and I enjoyed Ally's use of language and sytle. The poems read like diary entries, and I'm so grateful for having such an intimate glimpse into Ally's life thru their poetry.
this is a must read!
this is a must read!
December 23, 2025
sexy and earnest
January 11, 2026
Wow. wow wow wow. This is exactly what I needed to read today. The writing is absolutely beautiful. This made me yearn for queer joy and community. I will be reading this again and again and again.
January 7, 2026
Read this for Alice James Books. Preview copy.
Excellent. Ally Ang is everything you want of a modern queer mixed race feminist poet.
Her work is exceptionally well put together, taut, yet accessible and very honest and revealing, whereby you can inhabit her perspectives as you go through the book without being drowned by them. That close connectivity really helps you remember the intensity of her writing long after reading. I actually went back several times and wrote down some quotes from the book.
Lovely cover and design, this is a sublime collection of Angs work that I think any poetry lover would appreciate as a present or to read. Ally Ang is one of the finest modern poets out there and I am excited to see what comes next. Look for a full review of this book in World Literature Today this month.
Excellent. Ally Ang is everything you want of a modern queer mixed race feminist poet.
Her work is exceptionally well put together, taut, yet accessible and very honest and revealing, whereby you can inhabit her perspectives as you go through the book without being drowned by them. That close connectivity really helps you remember the intensity of her writing long after reading. I actually went back several times and wrote down some quotes from the book.
Lovely cover and design, this is a sublime collection of Angs work that I think any poetry lover would appreciate as a present or to read. Ally Ang is one of the finest modern poets out there and I am excited to see what comes next. Look for a full review of this book in World Literature Today this month.
August 19, 2025
Thank you to Edelweiss and Alice James Books for the E-ARC! This E-ARC was sent to me in exchange for an honest review.
Through poems about both queer love and queer hardship, this author adds touches of learning how to live with grief and injustice. Effortlessly beautiful and formatted, it was a delight to read. It hits you directly in the heart and causes your blood to pump harder in your veins with anger AND love. Altogether lovely.
Through poems about both queer love and queer hardship, this author adds touches of learning how to live with grief and injustice. Effortlessly beautiful and formatted, it was a delight to read. It hits you directly in the heart and causes your blood to pump harder in your veins with anger AND love. Altogether lovely.
January 28, 2026
one of the most refreshing poetry collections I've read in some time
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