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Alice James Books, 2025.
In poems born of loneliness, grief, anger, and uncertainty at the convergence of multiple apocalypses: a raging pandemic, a worsening climate crisis, multiple global uprisings, and ever-persisting violence, Ally Ang’s Let the Moon Wobble asks: what makes the end of the world worth surviving?
Ang’s debut considers multiple speakers’ journeys through pandemic, climate crisis, and rising fascism, spanning form and poetic tradition with humor, lyricism, and endearing absurdity. As Ang aches for connection a time of unrelenting isolation, their poems plumb the depths of grief and rage against the systems and institutions that aim to repress and kill queer people of color.
Coursing through Let the Moon Wobble is the deep desire for wildness, freedom from convention and constraint, and a longing to be seen. Ultimately, Ang brings us to a place of hope and possibility where what’s “freshly broken” can give way to blooming. Let the Moon Wobble is a testament to the ways queer joy and community can fuel resistance and allow us to imagine radical new ways of being.
Alice James Books, 2025.
In poems born of loneliness, grief, anger, and uncertainty at the convergence of multiple apocalypses: a raging pandemic, a worsening climate crisis, multiple global uprisings, and ever-persisting violence, Ally Ang’s Let the Moon Wobble asks: what makes the end of the world worth surviving?
Ang’s debut considers multiple speakers’ journeys through pandemic, climate crisis, and rising fascism, spanning form and poetic tradition with humor, lyricism, and endearing absurdity. As Ang aches for connection a time of unrelenting isolation, their poems plumb the depths of grief and rage against the systems and institutions that aim to repress and kill queer people of color.
Coursing through Let the Moon Wobble is the deep desire for wildness, freedom from convention and constraint, and a longing to be seen. Ultimately, Ang brings us to a place of hope and possibility where what’s “freshly broken” can give way to blooming. Let the Moon Wobble is a testament to the ways queer joy and community can fuel resistance and allow us to imagine radical new ways of being.
