Oculus : Poems (9781555978259)

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 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 speaks in the voice of 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 colour are made to endure in order to survive a culture that seeks to consume them.

Product details

• Format Paperback | 96 pages
• Dimensions 177 x 228 x 10mm | 252g
• Publication date 15 Jan 2019
• Publisher Graywolf Press,U.S.
• Publication City/Country MN, United States
• Language English
• ISBN10 1555978258
• ISBN13 9781555978259
• Bestsellers rank 472,626

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