Photographing Eden

Jason Gray is the author of two chapbooks of poetry, How to Paint the Savior Dead, winner of the Wick Chapbook Award, and Adam & Eve Go to the Zoo. His poems and reviews have appeared in Poetry, American Poetry Review, Southern Review, and elsewhere. He coedits the online literary journal Unsplendid, www.unsplendid.com.

“Jason Gray’s gift is quiet but profound. He brings the same respectful eye to nature as to acts of art - an eye that adds its own light to the occasions. A book for delectation.” - Heather McHugh, final judge "(Gray's) verse is the evident product of a disciplined mind, and it is even, more frequently than one might expect, beautiful." (Pleiades) “Few poets are more with it than Jason Gray. It is better than that: he is equally at home with the urban and the ‘natural,’ the present and the past. He is enabled by a secure but unobtrusive technique.... His phrasing can be startling without being freakish. It is the rightness that startles.” - Turner Cassity “Photographing Eden is a book of postlapsarian poems intent not on naming the creatures of a new world, but on naming-and thus trying to reclaim-the losses of this one. By turns dark and whimsical, these poems offer field guides and museum tours, photographs and paintings, of our mythological prehistory and our shadowy future.” - A. E. Stallings