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The Kingdom of Surfaces: Poems

By Sally Wen Mao
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By Sally Wen Mao
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*FINALIST FOR THE 2023 MAYA ANGELOU BOOK AWARD *

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 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...

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PoetryAmerican Poetry21st Century American PoetryAsian American PoetryAmerican poetry->Women authors->21st centuryAmerican poetry->Chinese American authorsAmerican poetry->21st century