Oculus : poems

Book 2019

"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 ... 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 progen...

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American poetry 21st century

American poetry Chinese American authors

Wong, Anna May, 1905-1961

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ISBN:

9781555978259

Description:

119 pages ; 23 cm

Contents:

Ghost story
Oculus
Occidentalism
Teledildonics
Mutant odalisque
Live feed
No resolution
Provenance: a vivisection
The toll of the sea
Anna May Wong on silent films
Anna May Wong fans her time machine
Anna May Wong goes home with Bruce Lee
Anna May Wong has breakfast at Tiffany's
Anna May Wong blows out sixteen candles
Antipode essay
Close encounters of the liminal kind
Electronic motherland
The Mongolian cow sour yogurt super voice girl
Electronic necropolis
Riding along for thousands of miles
The diary of Afong Moy
Anna May Wong meets Josephine Baker
Anna May Wong makes cameos
Anna May Wong rates the runway
Anna May Wong dreams of the Wong Kar-Wai
Anna May Wong goes viral
Ghost in the shell
Dirge with cutlery and furs
Yume Miru Kikai [The dreaming machine]
The five faces of Faye Valentine
Lavender town
The death of Ruan Lingyu
After Naim June Paik
Oculus

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2662376

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