Mad honey symposium
By: Sally Wen Mao
Publisher: Alice James Books
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 106
ISBN-13: 9781938584060
Subjects: Asian American authors; American poetry
Work titles: Poems
Description: ""Like Sylvia Plath's poems, these visionary poems are not only astute records of experience, they are themselves dazzling, verbal experiences. Worldly, wily, wise: Mad Honey Symposium is an extraordinary debut."-Terrance Hayes"[Mad Honey Symposium] has all the delicacy of [Mao's] earlier writing-but now there's also a gritty, world-wise sense of humor that gives her work heavyweight swagger."-Dave EggersMad Honey Symposium buzzes with lush sound and sharp imagery, creating a vivid natural world that's constantly in flux. From Venus flytraps to mad honey eaters, badgers to empowered outsiders, Sally Wen Mao's poems inhabit the precarious space between the vulnerable and the ferocious-how thin that line is, how breakable-with wonder and verve.From "Valentine for a Flytrap":.There's voltage in your flowers-mulch skeins, armory for cunning loves. Your mouth pins every sticky body, swallowing iridescence, digesting light. Venus, let me swim in your solarium. Venus, take me in your summer gown.Sally Wen Mao was born in Wuhan, China, and grew up in Boston and the Bay Area. She is a Kundiman fellow and 826 Valencia Young Author's Scholar. Her poetry is published or forthcoming in Colorado Review, Gulf Coast, Hayden's Ferry Review, Indiana Review, Passages North, Quarterly West, and West Branch, among others. She holds a BA from Carnegie Mellon University and an MFA from Cornell University, where she's currently a lecturer"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Valentine for a flytrap; title: Apiology, with stigma; title: XX; title: Mellivora capensis; title: Mad honey soliloquies 1-3; title: On the sorrow of apiary thieves; title: Sonnets for Kudryavka; title: Flight perils; title: The white-haired girl; title: The pickpocket; title: Searching for the queen bee; title: Hurling a durian; title: Monstera deliciosa; title: The azalea eaters; title: Capsaicin eclogue; title: Mad honey soliloquies 4-6; title: The spring of terrible fevers; title: The bullies; title: Lessons on lessening; title: Song, with caution tape; title: Suspension theory; title: Honey badger palinode; title: Migration suite; title: Honey badger duet; title: Yellow fever; title: The unraveling; title: Sartor; title: Mad honey song; title: Homunculus survival; title: Lawrenceville night; title: Haibun for thawing; title: Drop-kick aria; title: Inviolacy.