These Aren't My Woods Anymore by Soon Jones
With irresistible and unflinching honesty, Soon Jones' gorgeous debut collection of poems, These Aren’t My Woods Anymore, captures the experience of living as a mixed-race, queer, Asian American from the rural South. Jones' poems reflect on a deep connection to the natural landscape, burgeoning sexuality and futile attempts to hide it, the violent homophobia of their church-steeped childhood, and what can only be described as "the unrelenting hunger of the world." These visceral poems re-live and re-imagine, question and declare. Reading them, we are reminded of how language and life can so powerfully dislocate, and yet how home may be found in re-writing a world of one's own making.
Publication Date: November 1, 2025
Paperback ISBN: 978-1-64672-365-2
eBook ISBN: 978-1-64672-368-3
44 pages
5" x 8"
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Soon Jones is a Pushcart Prize-nominated Korean lesbian poet and author originating from the rural countryside of the American South. Their work explores the unending cycles of grief, trauma, and finding inner strength in your darkest moments. Soon is a 2017 Lambda Literary Fellow and is currently pursuing an MFA in Poetry at Oklahoma State University.
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