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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 colour are made to endure in order to survive a culture that seeks to consume them.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49514127556881,"sku":"GOR013376953","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50309246058769,"sku":"CIN1555978258G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50764313854225,"sku":"CIN1555978258VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52090060144913,"sku":"GOR011815722","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53350485754129,"sku":"NIN9781555978259","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1555978258.jpg?v=1751442836"},{"product_id":"mad-honey-symposium-book-sally-wen-mao-9781938584060","title":"Mad Honey Symposium","description":"\u003cp\u003eLike Sylvia Plath's poems, these visionary poems are not only astute records of experience, they are themselves dazzling, verbal experiences. Worldly, wily, wise: \u003ci\u003eMad Honey Symposium\u003c\/i\u003e is an extraordinary debut.--Terrance Hayes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eMad Honey Symposium\u003c\/i\u003e] has all the delicacy of  Mao's] earlier writing--but now there's also a gritty, world-wise sense of humor that gives her work heavyweight swagger.--Dave Eggers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMad Honey Symposium\u003c\/i\u003e buzzes with lush sound and sharp imagery, creating a vivid natural world that's constantly in flux. From Venus flytraps to mad honey eaters, badgers to empowered outsiders, Sally Wen Mao's poems inhabit the precarious space between the vulnerable and the ferocious--how thin that line is, how breakable--with wonder and verve.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom Valentine for a Flytrap: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .There's voltage\u003cbr\u003ein your flowers--mulch skeins, armory\u003cbr\u003efor cunning loves. Your mouth pins every sticky\u003cbr\u003ebody, swallowing iridescence, digesting\u003cbr\u003elight. Venus, let me swim in your solarium.\u003cbr\u003eVenus, take me in your summer gown.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSally Wen Mao\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Wuhan, China, and grew up in Boston and the Bay Area. She is a Kundiman fellow and 826 Valencia Young Author's Scholar. 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I loved this book.\" - Kelly Link, Pulitzer Prize finalist and bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eGet in Trouble\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Love\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"What I love most about \u003ci\u003eNinetails\u003c\/i\u003e is its fierce allegiance to underdogs of all kinds, its careful and myriad empathy for its characters, but also its pure and artisanal delight in language and fictive possibilities.\" --Ocean Vuong, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e-bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eOn Earth, We're Briefly Gorgeous\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTime is a Mother\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A \"lyrical and virtuosic\" fabulist debut collection of stories re-imagining the nine-tailed fox spirit of Asian folklore (Gina Chung).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A fox spirit avenges a teen girl by seducing her abuser. 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In lyric poems and wide-ranging sequences, Mao interrogates gendered expressions such as the contemporary \"leftover women,\" which denotes unmarried women, and the historical \"castle-toppler,\" a term used to describe a concubine whose beauty ruins an emperor and his empire. These poems also explore the permeability of object and subject through the history of Chinese women in America, labor practices around the silk loom, and the ongoing violence against Asian people during the COVID-19 pandemic.    At its heart, The Kingdom of Surfaces imagines the poet wandering into a Western fantasy, which covets, imitates, and appropriates Chinese aesthetics via Chinamania and the nineteenth-century Aesthetic movement, while perpetuating state violence upon actual lives. The title poem is a speculative recasting of \"Through the Looking-Glass,\" set in a surreal topsy-turvy version of the China-themed 2015 Metropolitan Museum of Art Gala. The Kingdom of Surfaces is a brilliantly conceived call for those who recognize the horrors of American exceptionalism to topple the empire that values capital over lives and power over liberation.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49991031095569,"sku":"CIN1644452375G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50768616620305,"sku":"CIN1644452375VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":50989179863313,"sku":"NIN9781644452370","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1644452375.jpg?v=1750764190"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-au\/collections\/author-books-by-sally-wen-mao.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}