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Light Year
Light Year by Jennifer Wong is a meditation on time. These poems delve into the mind of a poet crossing spaces of deep wounds, love and a constellation of friendships and love as she moves through upheaval, transformation and change.
The collection offers glimpses into the journeys of a migrant, a daughter, and a mother; with the passage of years, the poems ask what it might mean to move like light itself, beyond expectations and into new ways of understanding ourselves more profoundly. With sublime precision, Jennifer Wong's poetry brings clarity to the spaces between the stars – the time difference between memories and place, between our loved ones, and everything we hold dear in life.
A Poetry Book Society Recommendation
The collection offers glimpses into the journeys of a migrant, a daughter, and a mother; with the passage of years, the poems ask what it might mean to move like light itself, beyond expectations and into new ways of understanding ourselves more profoundly. With sublime precision, Jennifer Wong's poetry brings clarity to the spaces between the stars – the time difference between memories and place, between our loved ones, and everything we hold dear in life.
A Poetry Book Society Recommendation
114 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 19, 2026
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March 4, 2026I read this almost in tandem with another book and I thought I would like this one too but it just didn’t land for me. I liked “Dream Street”, “Meanwhile, the sea”, and “Planting something and worried that it will flower”, but I didn’t really take to the rest of the poems.
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