Jason Gray – Before the Roses Dishevel

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13 pages
hand-sewn

signed and numbered in an edition of 50

In the quiet, devastating wake of a world at a standstill, Jason Gray’s Before the Roses Dishevel interrogates the intersections of liturgical time and the lived experience of isolation. Written as a sequence of reflections on the Easter season, these poems grapple with the “ordinary time” of loss and the search for grace.

Jason Gray is the author of Radiation King, winner of the Idaho Prize for Poetry, and Photographing Eden, winner of the 2008 Hollis Summers Prize (Ohio UP). He has also published two chapbooks, How to Paint the Savior Dead (Kent State UP, 2007) and Adam & Eve Go to the Zoo (Dream Horse Press, 2003). His poems have appeared in Poetry, The American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, Literary Imagination, Poetry Ireland Review, and many other places. He has also reviewed poetry, nonfiction, and fiction for The Southern Review, The Missouri Review, Shenandoah, The Journal, and elsewhere. His poems have been anthologized and reprinted on Verse Daily. Besides writing, he spends time taking pictures of things.