A Different Lens: On Sally Wen Mao’s “Oculus”

THE IMAGINATION IN SALLY Wen Mao’s second volume of poetry, Oculus, revels in cybernetic possibilities, especially for the women of color who inhabit its pages. “Dear robot, dear poet,” she writes in an ode to Janelle Monáe, pop queen of the paranoid androids, “I long to meet you in a new world / where we […]

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