ABODE
Abode is a debut collection of interconnected poems that delve with vertiginous momentum into homes—both material and interior—lost and rediscovered from the inside looking in: they are excavations of nested domestic spheres furnished with the bricolage of 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.
Coming soon in September 2025 from University of Athabasca Press.
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Praise for Abode
"‘No one disappears alone—’ these linked poems are a pastoral freak-out of the repercussions of a morally tainted language lineage. Halfbelonging, wordnulled, nothingshaped: the human spore, ‘to people nearby worlds,’ comes across as ‘slightly rotten fruits that would disappear faster than I could forget them.’ Yet, with foresight and empathy, Jun-long Lee’s renewed commitment to this one solitary abode is within our reach."