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02368aam a2200277 i 4500 001 629EAEAA7A0E11EE96FE52224AECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20231103010033 008 220921t20232023mnu e b 000 p eng d 020 $a 1644452375 020 $a 9781644452370 035 $a (OCoLC)1345220012 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d WIM $d BKL $d NYP $d IMD $d GP5 $d VP@ $d YDX $d OCLCO $d SILO 050 4 $a PS3613 A623 K56 2023 100 1 $a Mao, Sally Wen, $e author. 245 14 $a The kingdom of surfaces : $b poems / $c Sally Wen Mao. 264 1 $a Minneapolis, Minnesota : $b Graywolf Press, $c 2023. 300 $a 126 pages ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-124). 520 $a "In The Kingdom of Surfaces, award-winning poet Sally Wen Mao examines art and history--especially the provenance of objects such as porcelain, silk, and pearls--to 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, which covets, imitates, and appropriates Chinese aesthetics via Chinamania and the nineteenth-century Aesthetic movement, while perpetuating state violence upon actual lives. The title poem is a speculative recasting of "Through the Looking-Glass," set in a surreal topsy-turvy version of the China-themed 2015 Metropolitan Museum of Art Gala. The Kingdom of Surfaces is a brilliantly conceived call for those who recognize the horrors of American exceptionalism to topple the empire that values capital over lives and power over liberation."--Publisher. 650 0 $a American poetry $y 21st century. 650 0 $a American poetry $x Chinese American authors. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20240502013450.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=629EAEAA7A0E11EE96FE52224AECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search