The Dead One, The Unconscious One, Thundering in Your Ear, Thriving Slumber by Jay Gao #metoo Koronas did her job in

Koronas did her job in order to write these poems: she studied and analyzed human history

We find ourselves in the moment

distinctive joy in sensory nourishment – in the sharing of food

heightened by absence…

Diminished

The Dead One, The Unconscious One, Thundering in Your Ear, Thriving Slumber by Jay Gao #metoo Koronas did her job inJay 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,