by LIT poetry editors, Rebecca Endres and Richard Berwind

Wherever you look in Georgia San Li’s “Wandering,” you are bound to find people in that restless stage of anticipation, traveling and on the cusp of arriving at their next destination. The voices of her poems are so often “alone and surrounded/waiting, to enter somewhere else.” It’s the yearning, the tightness in the chest before crossing that threshold to somewhere else that makes her poems so powerful.

As the title of the book suggests, “Wandering” tackles movement—between past and present, between different generations of family,