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With Sunflowers As Her Guide, Poet Tunes In To Dream Life For Debut Collection

Poet Jackie Wang's collection is a surrealist expression of how social processes and traumas show up in our dreams and how we can better understand ourselves by tuning in to them.
Writer Jackie Wang's debut poetry collection is called <em>The Sunflower Cast A Spell To Save Us From The Void.</em>

Our subconscious knows more about us than our waking selves. And it is often through dreams that we are able to tap into this unknown realm.

Writer Jackie Wang documented her dreams and sculpted them into poems for her debut collection . The book is a surrealist expression of how social processes and traumas show up

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