Imperium by Jay Gao Every Little Sound a young Victorian woman from

a young Victorian woman from Yorkshire who hiked the Swiss Peaks in her skirts and petticoats

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this remarkable and crystalline collection captures the struggle

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Imperium by Jay Gao Every Little Sound a young Victorian woman fromJay 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.