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The Dead One, The Unconscious One, Thundering in Your Ear, Thriving Slumber

Jay Gao

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Carcanet Press Ltd
27 August 2026
ISBN: 9781800175327
Paperback
98 pages

From the publisher

Part ecopoetic inventory, part dream vision, The Dead One, The Unconscious One, Thundering in Your Ear, Thriving Slumber is an experimental book-length serial poem on the arboreal. Rewiring nature and language, Jay Gao's second collection is an inventory for dreaming treely, dispersed across a commons-place of grafting and cruising, racial and queer desires, diasporic entanglements and renewal. These serial poems arrive at the hewn nation of the unthought like an invasive species addled by contemporary contaminants. Alternating between leafy lexical snippets and branching hypermetrical lines, The Dead One, The Unconscious One, Thundering in Your Ear, Thriving Slumber turns sylvestral form and grammar over towards a visionary ecopoetics.