{"product_id":"mad-honey-symposium","title":"Mad Honey Symposium","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Like Sylvia Plath's poems, these visionary poems are not only astute records of experience, they are themselves dazzling, verbal experiences. Worldly, wily, wise: \u003ci\u003eMad Honey Symposium\u003c\/i\u003e is an extraordinary debut.\"--Terrance Hayes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eMad Honey Symposium\u003c\/i\u003e] 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 Eggers\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMad Honey Symposium\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \"Valentine for a Flytrap\":\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .There's voltage\u003cbr\u003e in your flowers--mulch skeins, armory\u003cbr\u003e for cunning loves. Your mouth pins every sticky\u003cbr\u003e body, swallowing iridescence, digesting\u003cbr\u003e light. Venus, let me swim in your solarium.\u003cbr\u003e Venus, take me in your summer gown.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSally Wen Mao\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eColorado Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGulf Coast\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHayden's Ferry Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIndiana Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePassages North\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eQuarterly West\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWest Branch\u003c\/i\u003e, among others. She holds a BA from Carnegie Mellon University and an MFA from Cornell University, where she's currently a lecturer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"sb-details\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 106\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Alice James Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781938584060\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Alice James Books","offers":[{"title":"Standard Secondhand — £3.55","offer_id":47919245525169,"sku":"SB-1938584066-C3","price":3.55,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/2669\/5345\/files\/1938584066.jpg?v=1789227678","url":"https:\/\/sellbooks.co.uk\/products\/mad-honey-symposium","provider":"Sell Books .co.uk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}