partridges and pear trees
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The Dead One, The Unconscious One, Thundering in Your Ear, Thriving Slumber by Jay Gao Petru Iamandi partridges and pear treesJay 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,