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The Kingdom of Surfaces: Poems de Sally Wen Mao
de Sally Wen Mao - Género: English
Sinopsis
A virtuosic new poetry collection from Sally Wen Mao, "a consistently inspiring and exciting voice" (Morgan Parker)
In The Kingdom of Surfaces, award-winning poet Sally Wen Mao examines art and historyespecially the provenance of objects such as porcelain, silk, and pearlsto frame an important conversation on beauty, empire, commodification, and violence. 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,...
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this rating is largely a matter of personal preference. i think im realizing that i dry, in-your-face, didactic poetry (and novels, to be fair) less and less these days, and a lot of this collection was poeticized moral teachings that i encounter in all the online spaces i frequent anyway (albeit in more bite-sized formats). very little is oblique or abstract or veiled in the kingdom of surfaces and for that reason, i found it to be a major drag. i loveeeee sally wen maos more conceptual collection oculus, which, while still intensely and undeniably political, also did a lot of stylistic work that felt refreshing and original. this is more a 2.7/5 for me.
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