Oculus

By Mao, Sally Wen

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9781555978259 9781555978747
Publisher
Graywolf


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Reviewed on November 15, 2018  |  Arts & Humanities

After debuting with the smart, blistering Mad Honey Symposium , Mao returns to investigate a technology-subjugated world in take-no-prisoners language. The first of several poems titled "Oculus" chillingly depict a young woman's upload of her suicide on social media ("She wiped her lens/ before she died. The smudge still lives"), and in another poem, "pixelated ghosts" are what's left to haunt us. Poem after poem conveys the creepy feeling of surveillance...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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