The Dead One, The Unconscious One, Thundering in Your Ear, Thriving Slumber by Jay Gao
Carcanet Press
Jay Gao's second collection is an ambitious book-length poem that reimagines trees as sites of dreaming, language, and desire. Formally inspired by the commonplace book and medieval dream-visions, Jay Gao's work unfolds through leaf-like fragments and long, branching lines that stretch across the page, creating a serial, visionary rewiring between nature and language. Digging deep into land extraction, climate crises, invasive species and migration, queer desire and intimacy, digital technology, sustainable renewal, Gao asks: If trees once acted as portals into a dream-world, then what does it mean to be surrounded in the twenty-first century by the presence of trees, wood and paper. Are we constantly living in a dream world? Jay Gao's debut collection Imperium was the winner of a Somerset Maugham Award, Eric Gregory Award and Michael Murphy Memorial Prize 2023.
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