Imperium Simone Atangana Bekono and transcendence flow together into

and transcendence flow together into the vexed semi-coherence we have come to call culture

her poems dissolve the boundaries between visual art and the written word

and the natural sciences

While Sharif critiques the culture of performed social skills and poetry itself—its foreclosures

And rankings and rankings and badges and repetitions

Imperium Simone Atangana Bekono and transcendence flow together intoJay Gao By reimagining episodes from Homer's Odyssey, Jay Gao's highly anticipated debut collection, Imperium, introduces an innovative talent whose work cuts across poetic traditions, traversing mythic cartographies and imperial formations. Exploring forms of absolute and intimate power, Imperium is an imaginative meditation on how the past lives on in the present by way of, and beyond, a global poetics of diaspora