Sunflower Cast a Spell To Save Us From The Void

2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR POETRY 2022 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARDS FINALIST Jackie Wang's magnetic and spellbinding debut collection of poetry that attempts to speak in the language of dreams. The poems inThe Sunflower Cast A Spell To Save Us From The Voidread like dispatches from the dream world, withJackieWang acting as our trusted comrade reportingacross time and space.By sharing herpersonal index of dreams with itsscenes of solidarity and resilience, interpersonal conflict and outlaw jouissance, Wang embodieshistorical trauma and communal memory.Here, the all-too-familiar interplay between crisis and resistance becomes first distorted, then clarified and refreshed.With a light touch and invigorating sense of humor, Wang illustrates the social dimension of dreams and their ability to inform and reshape the dreamer's waking world withrenewed energy and insight.