A collection that examines what intimacy is like when not in close proximity. As observed in personal relationships with people and, most especially, with the natural world. This volume of queer ecopoetry is poetry for our time, and it reminds us of our connections to the Earth and the intricate ties we have with humanity and with flora and fauna.

Praise for the book

"All My Distances Point to Home is an astonishing expression of queer Filipino ecopoetry. Through a diverse assemblage of forms, King Llanza explores the intimate and eroticporousness between humans, animals, and the environment. There is an earthy, bodily, and watery lyricism in these pages. There is a deep hunger to transform our senses into 'a state of ceremony and unison'." (Craig Santos Perez)

"Elemental and urban worlds, weather as well as sex all intersect in these poems that pulse with unabashed longing and surprising humour, fissuring from desire thwarted, sublimated and transmitted through poignant metaphor and vulnerable, tender and hard-won truths." (Cyril Wong)

"In All My Distances Point to Home, King Llanza offers the natural world as the mirror to the self--or is it the self that is the world refracted into grief, or longing or that allegory of relationality, where no easy optimism, no convenient metaphor cleaves cleanly that which sunders us from all that we live with. These poems are unafraid to call a gash, a gash and for that they deserve both our awe and our trust. What a debut this is!" (Lawrence Lacambra Ypil)

"Llanza's luminous voice draws together desire, violence, wonder and hope in a tender alchemy. From site-specific explorations of vulnerability and irreparable loss, to poems that marvel at the intricacies of our entanglement, the speakers of these poems witness and challenge the precarious future the poet forecasts. All My Distances Point to Home is a vital debut collection that understands our entanglement, weaving together verses that reveal personal, geopolitical, and ecological harm. Llanza's poems shimmer with curiosity and empathy as they move towards fragile futures: 'We are taught infinity / through the untouchable'." (Eunice Andrada)