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How might the figuration of trees deform language? 

 

Bark, Archive, Splinter is an ecopoetic experiment. Inspired, in part, by the commonplace book, by medieval texts, these fragments aim to bring together intimacies of wood, race, desire, via a sylvestral grammar and syntax, via a poetics of grafting.

Bark, Archive, Splinter by Jay Gao

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  • Jay Gao is a poet from Edinburgh, Scotland, living in New York City. His debut poetry collection Imperium (Carcanet, 2022) is a winner of the 2023 Michael Murphy Memorial Prize, an Eric Gregory Award and a Somerset Maugham Award. He is also the author of four poetry pamphlets and chapbooks. Currently, he reads for Poetry magazine and is a PhD student in English at Columbia University.

  • Format: Paperback / softback
    Publisher: Out-Spoken Press
    Imprint: Out-Spoken Press
    ISBN: 9781738412501
    Published: 23 May 2024

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