Description: Jun-long Lee's debut collection of interconnected prose and free verse poems.
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.Brief description: Jun-long Lee is a Canadian poet, visual artist, and filmmaker. His poems have appeared in Conjunctions, Jubilat, The Malahat Review, Riddle Fence, Grain, Contemporary Verse 2, and elsewhere.
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."
-- "Quill & Quire"