Oculus: Poems Contributor(s): Mao, Sally Wen (Author) |
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ISBN: 1555978258 ISBN-13: 9781555978259 Publisher: Graywolf Press
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback Published: January 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - Asian American |
Dewey: 811.6 |
LCCN: 2018947076 |
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6.9" W x 8.9" L (0.55 lbs) 96 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian - Ethnic Orientation - Asian |
Features: Bibliography, Price on Product |
Review Citations: Library Journal 11/15/2018 pg. 82 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR POETRY In Oculus, Sally Wen Mao explores exile not just as a matter of distance and displacement but as a migration through time and a reckoning with technology. The title poem follows a nineteen-year-old girl in Shanghai who uploaded her suicide onto Instagram. Other poems cross into animated worlds, examine robot culture, and haunt a necropolis for electronic waste. A fascinating sequence spanning the collection speaks in the voice of the international icon and first Chinese American movie star Anna May Wong, who travels through the history of cinema with a time machine, even past her death and into the future of film, where she finds she has no progeny. With a speculative imagination and a sharpened wit, Mao powerfully confronts the paradoxes of seeing and being seen, the intimacies made possible and ruined by the screen, and the many roles and representations that women of color are made to endure in order to survive a culture that seeks to consume them. |
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