Dream of Me as Water
with David Ly
Hosted by Ellen Chang-Richardson
Podcast Poetry
In Dream of Me as Water, David Ly guides us through the depths and idiosyncrasies of the surreal, love, and creatures both real and imagined. These poems present the surface and invite the reader to break through that surface, offering swirls of lived emotion and fantastic imaginings.
Poet Ellen Chang-Richardson reunites with David Ly for a conversation on his second collection Dream of Me as Water, which explores ways of being that are not beholden to the expectations of others.
Using water as his central metaphor, Ly meditates on how identity is never a stagnant concept, but instead something that is intangible, fluid, and ever-evolving. Dream of Me as Water revels in the nuances of the self, flouting outside perceptions for deeper, more personal realities.
