Planetaria: Visual Poetry

Rewriting the sky from a female perspective, Monica Ong invites readers into the intimate cosmology of Planetaria, utilizing the visual language of astronomy to explore the precarious territories of motherhood, women in science, and diaspora identity. This collection examines the power struggles that myth-making elicits through the alchemy of text and image hybrids.

With a foreword by art critic and poet John Yau, these poems move through constellations, across ancestral skies, turning wide-...