When I Was the Wind

by Hannah Lee Jones

2023 Eric Hoffer Award winner in Poetry
2023 Nautilus Book Award Gold Winner in Poetry
2023 First Horizon Award Winner in Poetry
2023 IPPY Awards Bronze Medalist in Poetry

A wild and dreamy poetic journey through the wilderness in all of us

In her debut poetry collection, Hannah Lee Jones brings readers on a mythic journey across a vast physical and metaphysical landscape. Four cardinal directions point the way through this inner wilderness, through trials and initiations, suffering and discovery, on a restless quest for deeper connection and wholeness. What emerges is a richly textured map of love and loss, a tapestry of hard-won truths both personal and universal. At turns mysterious, dreamlike, intimate, and illuminating, these poems explore what is wild and timeless in the human soul.

"Like stepping into a beautiful dream where women fly over orchards and we encompass the landscape. There are few collections of poems so meditative that I lose myself so deeply . . . WHEN I WAS THE WIND is a remarkable and gorgeous debut collection--you will be better having read these poems."--Kelli Russell Agodon, author of Dialogues with Rising Tides (Copper Canyon Press)

Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1735678368
• ISBN13: 9781735678368
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: June Road Press
• Length: 100 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.4" x 8.4"