My Earliest Person

Author: Jennifer Soong

Publisher: The Last Books (2025)

Lyrical drifts warped by syntax into blizzarding softness; odes to beauty, meaning, and inexperience splintered by history and grammar. An aqueous surface marbled with the lightest possible touch, lost footings arrested by change’s near-griplessness.

Composed across two winters between late 2022 and early 2024. Contains 43 poems.