The Dead One, The Unconscious One, Thundering in Your Ear, Thriving Slumber by Jay Gao #metoo rendered with sharp lyricism and

rendered with sharp lyricism and cinematic intimacy

an astronaut’s fingerprints are left in frost on a postbox

heightened by absence…

which is both its suffering and its joy

in south-western Russia

The Dead One, The Unconscious One, Thundering in Your Ear, Thriving Slumber by Jay Gao #metoo rendered with sharp lyricism andJay 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,