Three Worlds
Written between 2024 and the spring of 2025, this collection emerged from a quiet withdrawal — a final year in New York spent largely alone, where communication grew sparse and something harder to name grew in its place.
Dai Pan was born in Jiangsu, raised in Shanghai, and has since lived across cities that never quite became home. What remains is not rootlessness, but a particular way of seeing: from the edges, in transit, between.
The work is organized into three dimensions — Still Life, Bless You, and Their World — porous and overlapping, the way memory actually moves. You are invited not to arrive at anything, but simply to pass through.
All poems collected in Three Worlds are the original work of Dai Pan (潘岱) and are protected under copyright. No part of this collection may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form without the prior written permission of the author. For permissions and inquiries, visit daipan.art.