Imperium

Gao Jay

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.

About the author

Jay Gao is the author of three poetry pamphlets: "TRAVESTY58" (2022); "Katabasis" (2020), a winner of a New Poets Prize; and "Wedding Beasts" (2019), shortlisted for the Saltire-Callum MacDonald Award. He is a Contributing Editor at "The White Review". Originally from Edinburgh, Scotland, he earned his MFA at Brown University, and is currently a PhD student at Columbia University.