Jason Gray

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’s new book, a selection of five poems that take the reader through the Easter season, is a limited edition, handmade chapbook from Tiny Cat Press, one of two the press is launching with.

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Jason Gray is the author of four books of poetry and a photographer of animals and natural environments. He teaches at UNC-Chapel Hill.

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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

In all of Gray’s work there is a sense that the heart, the faithful and abiding heart, is best (and most safely) transported via the artifice of poetry.

Kathy Fagan

Few poets are more with it than Jason Gray. . . . His phrasing can be startling without being freakish. It is the rightness that startles.

Turner Cassity