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Mad Honey Symposium
Sally Wen Mao
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Mad Honey Symposium
Sally Wen Mao
About This Book
"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."âTerrance Hayes
"[ Mad Honey Symposium ] has all the delicacy of [Mao's] earlier writingâbut now there's also a gritty, world-wise sense of humor that gives her work heavyweight swagger."âDave Eggers
Mad 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 ferociousâhow thin that line is, how breakableâwith wonder and verve.
From "Valentine for a Flytrap":
.........................There's voltage
in your flowersâmulch 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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Note to the Reader
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Dedication
- I.
- II.
- III.
- IV.
- Notes