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- Book Title
- Oculus : Poems
- Publication Name
- Oculus
- Title
- Oculus
- Subtitle
- Poems
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 1555978258
- EAN
- 9781555978259
- ISBN
- 9781555978259
- Publisher
- Graywolf Press
- Genre
- Poetry
- Release Date
- 01/02/2019
- Release Year
- 2019
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.4in
- Item Length
- 8.9in
- Item Width
- 7.1in
- Item Weight
- 8.8 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2019
- Topic
- American / Asian American, General
- Number of Pages
- 96 Pages
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A brilliant second collection by Sally Wen Mao on the violence of the spectacle--starring the film legend Anna May Wong 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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Graywolf Press
ISBN-10
1555978258
ISBN-13
9781555978259
eBay Product ID (ePID)
21038378956
Product Key Features
Book Title
Oculus : Poems
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
American / Asian American, General
Publication Year
2019
Genre
Poetry
Number of Pages
96 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.9in
Item Height
0.4in
Item Width
7.1in
Item Weight
8.8 Oz
Additional Product Features
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Ps3613.A623
Reviews
"Reading Oculus is like being given the gift of sight, not once, but again and again and again. In these poems it feels almost as if Sally Wen Mao is making her very own Asian American futurism, but this work is deeply rooted in a present that we can't acknowledge, and so her futures are built out of what we won't admit and won't look at. And yet in the poems, she gives us both that and the pleasure in that--the possibility of being restored to who we could be, and who we could be next."--Alexander Chee " Oculus is a stunning and mesmerizing journey, where each poem is a lesson--in listening, in power, in the music of words, in the side effects of erasure, in who we are to each other. Sally Wen Mao's precise imagination is steeped in several histories, many of them painful: 'The stories about our lives do not have faces.' But she re-examines everything so sharply and playfully: 'Rewrite this,' she begs. Anna May Wong meets technological dystopia, and it is brilliant. Mao's is a consistently inspiring and exciting voice, and in her world--full of horror, surprise, indignation, affirmation--all power is given to splendor, nature, and the people."--Morgan Parker "Sally Wen Mao's Oculus is an embodied interrogation of the brutal and repressive architectures of patriarchal silencing. Mao's poems, richly informed by science, history, the natural world, Anna May Wong, and the oft-forgotten facets of cultural and historic upheaval, drive their power from the fulcrum of alterity. Hers is a poetics of breaching--not to merely disrupt for the sake of novelty, but to recalibrate and suggest new hierarchies from which to live and feel by. They work as both scalpel and flood, poems of brooded, subtle syntax that build and accrue toward inevitable and stifling ferocity. They challenge our culture's often too-calcified notions of love and romance, power and failure, and dismantle the belief that certainty is infallible strength. Mao's work reclaims for itself an acidic possibility, corrosive to monuments of thought that never held the othered body the way her very poems do: how they erect themselves, like bones, according to a life's desire to bend, stand, and, most importantly, dance on its own terms--both out of joy as well as to keep from falling."--Ocean Vuong "I simply trust no other poet to confront and fracture notions of Empire more deftly--and with such e´lan--than Sally Wen Mao. These eerie and exacting poems serve as light and lighthouse for a much-needed reckoning. Prepare yourself to search. Prepare yourself to be searched."--Aimee Nezhukumatathil " Oculus by Sally Wen Mao is a highly ambitious and well-researched book. Both film aficionados and Anna May Wong fans will find a treasure hunt here. A clash of personalities and histories collide with breakneck speed. A tour-de-force, a rousing ride."--Marilyn Chin, "There are eyes everywhere in Oculus , but not all of them are blessed with sight. Some are all-seeing, panoptic; others are yearning and blinkered, unable to return the gaze they attract. These poems are haunted by images of human faces staring out from all kinds of screens, faces that are themselves screens upon which the world projects its fantasies and anxieties. . . . The poems in Oculus are rangy, protean, contradictory. They offer an alternative to the selfie, that static reduction of a person to her most photogenic poses." -- The New Yorker "In her stunning second collection, Mao stages a searing ventriloquy act. . . . These depictions speak and fight back against the white gaze that has framed them." --NPR.org " Oculus is a deftly structured volume of hauntingly perceptive poems, peering backward through the 20th century while penetrating our contemporary moment. It''s an homage to pioneering Chinese Americans and an indictment of Asian representation in American culture, which never for a moment shies away from the difficult tasks of taking on race and history and technology all at once, but confidently looks them right in the eye, unblinking." -- Vulture "Stunning, expansive. . . . [ Oculus ] marks Sally Wen Mao as one of the most compelling, provocative poets working today. . . . Mao''s language beautifully encompasses both the natural and technological worlds, infusing both with humanity, and offering a crystal clear vision of the ways in which our culture corrupts and consumes those who don''t fit within it seamlessly." -- Nylon "Sally Wen Mao''s poetry is at once speculative, sharp, lush, and precise. . . . Oculus tackles distance and exile, technology and time--several poems are told through the filter of a time-traveling Anna May Wong, the first Chinese American film star, which is all I needed to hear to zoom through space and time wherever she asks me to." -- Literary Hub "The poems in [ Oculus ] consider the detritus and delirium of digital life. . . . Whether wayward spirit or nefarious satyr, Mao''s narrators and characters inhabit the sense of oculus as eye-opening, a transformative door." -- The Millions "[In Oculus ] Mao manifests images of robots, electronic waste, Instagram-uploaded suicides, casting a suspicious glance on the perpetually-growing nature of technology." -- Electric Literature "[In Oculus ] Mao discusses the dehumanization of women of color by offering them protection: blurred images, new armor, grounds and oceans to bury and lose themselves in. . . . A victorious and worthwhile review." -- The Arkansas International "[ Oculus ] is a book consumed first and foremost with the impact of the spectacle on those of us for whom representation is both rare and often rapacious: women of color." -- Anomaly "In Oculus , Mao demonstrates how the hyper-visibility produced by and through technology is often as effective a force for the Imperial gaze to ''unsee'' or ''missee'' non-white bodies as ignoring them altogether." -- The Bind "[Sally Wen Mao investigates] a technology-subjugated world in take-no-prisoners language. . . . Raw and impressive. . . . A strong second collection from a rising poet." -- Library Journal "Reading Oculus is like being given the gift of sight. . . . the possibility of being restored to who we could be, and who we could be next." --Alexander Chee " Oculus is a stunning and mesmerizing journey. . . . and it is brilliant. Mao''s is a consistently inspiring and exciting voice." --Morgan Parker "Both scalpel and flood, poems of brooded, subtle syntax that build and accrue toward inevitable and stifling ferocity. Mao''s work reclaims for itself an acidic possibility." --Ocean Vuong "I simply trust no other poet to confront and fracture notions of Empire more deftly--and with such élan--than Sally Wen Mao." --Aimee Nezhukumatathil "A tour-de-force, a rousing ride." --Marilyn Chin, "Stunning, expansive. . . . [ Oculus ] marks Sally Wen Mao as one of the most compelling, provocative poets working today. . . . Mao's language beautifully encompasses both the natural and technological worlds, infusing both with humanity, and offering a crystal clear vision of the ways in which our culture corrupts and consumes those who don't fit within it seamlessly." -- Nylon "Sally Wen Mao's poetry is at once speculative, sharp, lush, and precise. . . . Oculus tackles distance and exile, technology and time--several poems are told through the filter of a time-traveling Anna May Wong, the first Chinese American film star, which is all I needed to hear to zoom through space and time wherever she asks me to." -- Literary Hub "The poems in [ Oculus ] consider the detritus and delirium of digital life. . . . Whether wayward spirit or nefarious satyr, Mao's narrators and characters inhabit the sense of oculus as eye-opening, a transformative door." -- The Millions "[In Oculus ] Mao manifests images of robots, electronic waste, Instagram-uploaded suicides, casting a suspicious glance on the perpetually-growing nature of technology." -- Electric Literature "[In Oculus ] Mao discusses the dehumanization of women of color by offering them protection: blurred images, new armor, grounds and oceans to bury and lose themselves in. . . . A victorious and worthwhile review." -- The Arkansas International "[ Oculus ] is a book consumed first and foremost with the impact of the spectacle on those of us for whom representation is both rare and often rapacious: women of color." -- Anomaly "[Sally Wen Mao investigates] a technology-subjugated world in take-no-prisoners language. . . . Raw and impressive. . . . A strong second collection from a rising poet." -- Library Journal "Reading Oculus is like being given the gift of sight. . . . the possibility of being restored to who we could be, and who we could be next." --Alexander Chee " Oculus is a stunning and mesmerizing journey. . . . and it is brilliant. Mao's is a consistently inspiring and exciting voice." --Morgan Parker "Both scalpel and flood, poems of brooded, subtle syntax that build and accrue toward inevitable and stifling ferocity. Mao's work reclaims for itself an acidic possibility." --Ocean Vuong "I simply trust no other poet to confront and fracture notions of Empire more deftly--and with such élan--than Sally Wen Mao." --Aimee Nezhukumatathil "A tour-de-force, a rousing ride." --Marilyn Chin, "[ Oculus ] is a book consumed first and foremost with the impact of the spectacle on those of us for whom representation is both rare and often rapacious: women of color." -- Anomaly "[Sally Wen Mao investigates] a technology-subjugated world in take-no-prisoners language. . . . Raw and impressive. . . . A strong second collection from a rising poet." -- Library Journal "Reading Oculus is like being given the gift of sight. . . . the possibility of being restored to who we could be, and who we could be next." --Alexander Chee " Oculus is a stunning and mesmerizing journey. . . . and it is brilliant. Mao's is a consistently inspiring and exciting voice." --Morgan Parker "Both scalpel and flood, poems of brooded, subtle syntax that build and accrue toward inevitable and stifling ferocity. Mao's work reclaims for itself an acidic possibility." --Ocean Vuong "I simply trust no other poet to confront and fracture notions of Empire more deftly--and with such élan--than Sally Wen Mao." --Aimee Nezhukumatathil "A tour-de-force, a rousing ride." --Marilyn Chin, "There are eyes everywhere in Oculus , but not all of them are blessed with sight. Some are all-seeing, panoptic; others are yearning and blinkered, unable to return the gaze they attract. These poems are haunted by images of human faces staring out from all kinds of screens, faces that are themselves screens upon which the world projects its fantasies and anxieties. . . . The poems in Oculus are rangy, protean, contradictory. They offer an alternative to the selfie, that static reduction of a person to her most photogenic poses." -- The New Yorker "In her stunning second collection, Mao stages a searing ventriloquy act. . . . These depictions speak and fight back against the white gaze that has framed them." --NPR.org "Stunning, expansive. . . . [ Oculus ] marks Sally Wen Mao as one of the most compelling, provocative poets working today. . . . Mao's language beautifully encompasses both the natural and technological worlds, infusing both with humanity, and offering a crystal clear vision of the ways in which our culture corrupts and consumes those who don't fit within it seamlessly." -- Nylon "Sally Wen Mao's poetry is at once speculative, sharp, lush, and precise. . . . Oculus tackles distance and exile, technology and time--several poems are told through the filter of a time-traveling Anna May Wong, the first Chinese American film star, which is all I needed to hear to zoom through space and time wherever she asks me to." -- Literary Hub "The poems in [ Oculus ] consider the detritus and delirium of digital life. . . . Whether wayward spirit or nefarious satyr, Mao's narrators and characters inhabit the sense of oculus as eye-opening, a transformative door." -- The Millions "[In Oculus ] Mao manifests images of robots, electronic waste, Instagram-uploaded suicides, casting a suspicious glance on the perpetually-growing nature of technology." -- Electric Literature "[In Oculus ] Mao discusses the dehumanization of women of color by offering them protection: blurred images, new armor, grounds and oceans to bury and lose themselves in. . . . A victorious and worthwhile review." -- The Arkansas International "[ Oculus ] is a book consumed first and foremost with the impact of the spectacle on those of us for whom representation is both rare and often rapacious: women of color." -- Anomaly "[Sally Wen Mao investigates] a technology-subjugated world in take-no-prisoners language. . . . Raw and impressive. . . . A strong second collection from a rising poet." -- Library Journal "Reading Oculus is like being given the gift of sight. . . . the possibility of being restored to who we could be, and who we could be next." --Alexander Chee " Oculus is a stunning and mesmerizing journey. . . . and it is brilliant. Mao's is a consistently inspiring and exciting voice." --Morgan Parker "Both scalpel and flood, poems of brooded, subtle syntax that build and accrue toward inevitable and stifling ferocity. Mao's work reclaims for itself an acidic possibility." --Ocean Vuong "I simply trust no other poet to confront and fracture notions of Empire more deftly--and with such élan--than Sally Wen Mao." --Aimee Nezhukumatathil "A tour-de-force, a rousing ride." --Marilyn Chin, "[In Oculus ] Mao discusses the dehumanization of women of color by offering them protection: blurred images, new armor, grounds and oceans to bury and lose themselves in. . . . A victorious and worthwhile review." -- The Arkansas International "[ Oculus ] is a book consumed first and foremost with the impact of the spectacle on those of us for whom representation is both rare and often rapacious: women of color." -- Anomaly "[Sally Wen Mao investigates] a technology-subjugated world in take-no-prisoners language. . . . Raw and impressive. . . . A strong second collection from a rising poet." -- Library Journal "Reading Oculus is like being given the gift of sight. . . . the possibility of being restored to who we could be, and who we could be next." --Alexander Chee " Oculus is a stunning and mesmerizing journey. . . . and it is brilliant. Mao's is a consistently inspiring and exciting voice." --Morgan Parker "Both scalpel and flood, poems of brooded, subtle syntax that build and accrue toward inevitable and stifling ferocity. Mao's work reclaims for itself an acidic possibility." --Ocean Vuong "I simply trust no other poet to confront and fracture notions of Empire more deftly--and with such élan--than Sally Wen Mao." --Aimee Nezhukumatathil "A tour-de-force, a rousing ride." --Marilyn Chin
Copyright Date
2019
Target Audience
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Lccn
2018-947076
Dewey Decimal
811/.6
Dewey Edition
23
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