{"product_id":"oculus-poems-paperback","title":"Oculus: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSally Wen Mao\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFINALIST FOR THE \u003ci\u003eLOS ANGELES TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BOOK PRIZE FOR POETRY \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA brilliant second collection by Sally Wen Mao on the violence of the spectacle--starring the film legend Anna May Wong \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eOculus\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSally Wen Mao\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of a previous poetry collection, \u003ci\u003eMad Honey Symposium\u003c\/i\u003e. Her work has won a Pushcart Prize and fellowships at Kundiman, George Washington University, and the New York Public Library Cullman Center.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.9 x 6.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 15, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771610562848,"sku":"9781555978259","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/52c1f0f4e0683ecb849d7d8e242fcc36.webp?v=1780389505","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/oculus-poems-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}