Imperium by Jay Gao Mairan de Vooght She is writing about race

She is writing about race in America

Eastern Daily Press [on Mapping the Delta]

Amy Lowell and George Meredith perfectly frame this time of year

Brilliant Corners is full of inglorious comedowns for imperial legacies and tormented meditations on art’s relationship with a fallen world

the real and the unreal

Imperium by Jay Gao Mairan de Vooght She is writing about raceJay Gao's debut collection Imperium introduces a compelling innovative talent. These poems layer together formal experiments, lyric intensity and occasionally sardonic perspectives on the contemporary. His perspective is refreshingly original: he writes as a Chinese Scottish poet, critic and editor. He has published three pamphlets and is a contributing editor to The White Review. He divides his life between Edinburgh and Providence, Rhode Island.