These two lyrical, meditative persona poems by Jennifer S. Cheng inhabit “the Voice of the Lady in the Moon,” as the series suggests, and adopt her personage as a vehicle to explore the complications of womanhood. Within the neat boundaries of this fictionalized voice — depicted even by the physical limitations of the poems’ structured stanzas — Cheng unleashes emotionally resonant, bitterly honest monologues about everything from self-harm to self-care, from the desire for domestic stability to the lust for danger.​

— Eugenia Leigh, Poetry Editor