Sally Wen Mao

Contemporary American poet.

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  1. 1. Oculus

    A searing collection of poems that interrogates vision and surveillance—both literal and cultural—tracing a speaker’s ties to family, migration, loss, and the body as mediated by technology, memory, and history. Images of eyes, lenses, and cameras recur as metaphors for seeing and being seen, while the poems move between intimate elegy and speculative burrowing into racialized violence, diaspora, and the relentless optics of modern life, collapsing personal grief and political observation into a striking lyrical inquiry.

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