112th: Poetry by Jay Gao, with Lynn Xu and Patricia Dailey
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Join us Thursday, October 15th at 7pm for a reading by Jay Gao to celebrate the release of The Dead One, the Unconscious One, Thundering in Your Ear, Thriving Slumber. He will be joined by the poet Lynn Xu. Their reading will be followed by a conversation with Patricia Dailey. In order to facilitate this in-person author event, we will be partially closing the second floor starting at 6:45pm. Please review our Safety guidelines and register for the event using the link above. Bios: Jay Gao is a poet from Edinburgh, Scotland, living in New York City. His debut collection Imperium (2022) was a winner of the 2023 Michael Murphy Memorial Prize, an Eric Gregory Award, and a Somerset Maugham Award. Born in Shanghai, Lynn Xu is author of Debts & Lessons and And Those Ashen Heaps That Cantilevered Vase of Moonlight, which received the 2022 Poetry Center Book Award. With Joshua Edwards, she is the co-translator of Pee Poems, as well as Prison Poems and Temple Speak (forthcoming), both by Yang Licai (aka Lao Yang). She teaches at Columbia University and co-edits Canarium Books. Patricia Dailey is an Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University specializing in medieval literature, critical theory, and trees. She is the author of Promised Bodies: Time, Language, and Corporeality in Medieval Women's Mystical Texts (Columbia University Press, 2013), as well as translations of works by Giorgio Agamben, Jean-François Lyotard, and Antonio Negri.
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- The Dead One, the Unconscious One, Thundering in Your Ear, Thriving SlumberJay Gao
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