ImperiumJay Gao By reimagining episodes from Homer's Odyssey, Jay Gao's highly anticipated debut collection, Imperium, introduces an innovative talent whose work cuts across poetic traditions, traversing mythic cartographies and imperial formations. Exploring forms of absolute and intimate power, Imperium is an imaginative meditation on how the past lives on in the present by way of, and beyond, a global poetics of diaspora

depression and addiction to menstruation

Luu Dieu Van

a poetics which resists being neutralized or categorized

In Sawako Nakayasu’s Some Girls Walk Into the Country They Are From an unsettling diaspora of “girls” is deployed as poetic form

Does the pouty

this version of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s masterpiece honors the author's original intentions and vision for the book

focusing primarily on the four books of Odes

indicating a possible tendency toward mysticism

Only award-winning poet Anne Carson could create a work that takes on the oldest of lyrical subjects — love — and make it this powerful

The book is as staunch as it is warm – one arm extended in a hug and the other cupped over the mouth to shield a secret (weapon)

Originally published in America in 2006 by Leon Works

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