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FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR POETRY 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. Read more

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Graywolf Press


Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 15, 2019


Language ‏ : ‎ English


Print length ‏ : ‎ 96 pages


ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1555978258


ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 59


Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds


Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 0.4 x 8.95 inches


Best Sellers Rank: #1,430,897 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #214 in Asian American Poetry


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  • Inspiring and Evocative
Format: Paperback
Oculus is a collection emotive and thought provoking poetry. The detailed mastery and craftsmanship of the written word is evident in every poem, without feeling overwrought or forced.
Reviewed in the United States on August 13, 2021 by Martha Custis

  • Unique and multi-layered
Format: Paperback
This almost feels like an epic poem, written exquisitely and guides the reader through tunnels of thought atypical of contemporary poetry. This book is bound to be an "up and comer." Big ups!
Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2021 by JRyan

  • Much history, many homages, and good poetry
Format: Paperback
Mao's phrasing, imagery, and general inventiveness are exquisite, and her specialty of cyber and high tech references is engaging and amusing. I am less impressed with her references to the history of East Asians in film (the notes at the back of the book are somewhat helpful), with her obvious puns and plays on words, with with some mildly didactic, lecturing passages. On the other hand, one of my favorite sequences of poems in the book were homages to Nam June Paik, a famous video artist whose work I've experienced. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2019 by Andrew D. Oram

  • Beautiful book!
Format: Paperback
Highly recommended! This is such a beautiful book. I love the way the author weaves history in the poems. This is the type of book I will definitely return to often.
Reviewed in the United States on January 19, 2020 by Michael P. Jimenez

  • terrific book
Format: Kindle
great book!
Reviewed in the United States on April 29, 2019 by Devi S. Laskar

  • Lovely collection!
Format: Kindle
Oculus is such a wonderful collection of poems! The language is so beautiful, and the content so rich and human and sharp. Very happy I picked this up.
Reviewed in the United States on August 12, 2019 by Andrea F

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