New Earth

New Earth is a luminous debut collection that moves between the celestial and the intimate, the ancient and the deeply personal. In poems that blend myth, memory, and desire, the speaker searches through time, language, and the body to locate something like divinity—somewhere between the seen and the unseen, the spoken and the swallowed. Spanning from the beginning of the universe to its inevitable end, this book gives voice to the quiet holiness of touch, the violence of change, and the ache of being alive inside a body that both betrays and carries. From the bedroom floor to the Colorado River, from soft pink morning skies to the burning houses of memory, these poems bear witness to what is lost and what remains—what keeps moving us forward. For readers of Ocean Vuong, Kaveh Akbar, Jericho Brown, and those drawn to work that is both sacred and sensual, New Earth is a hymn of longing, a queer gospel, and a love letter to the beautiful, brutal business of becoming.