{"product_id":"gao-jay-the-dead-opb","title":"[10\/20\/26] Gao, Jay: The Dead One, The Unconscious One, Thundering in Your Ear, Thriving Slumber","description":"\u003cp\u003eNightboat Books, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: October 20, 2026\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart ecopoetic inventory, part dream vision, \u003ci\u003eThe Dead One, The Unconscious One, Thundering in Your Ear, Thriving Slumber\u003c\/i\u003e is an experimental book-length poem on the arboreal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRewiring nature and language, Jay Gao's second collection is an inventory for dreaming treely, dispersed across a common(s)place of grafting and cruising, racial and queer desires, diasporic entanglements and renewal. This serial poem arrives at the hewn nation of the unthought like an invasive species addled by contemporary contaminants. Alternating between leafy lexical snippets and long branching lines, \u003ci\u003eThe Dead One, The Unconscious One, Thundering in Your Ear, Thriving Slumber\u003c\/i\u003e turns sylvestral form and grammar over towards a visionary ecopoetics.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45118186323991,"sku":"9781643623290","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/91gq5xCmHEL._SL1500.jpg?v=1781825429","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/gao-jay-the-dead-opb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}