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OCoLC |
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20231228134325.0 |
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| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
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| LC control number |
2022946512 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
YDX |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
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rda |
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YDX |
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NFG |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781644452370 |
| Qualifying information |
(paperback) |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
1644452375 |
| Qualifying information |
(paperback) |
| 035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER |
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| System control number |
(OCoLC)1345220012 |
| 092 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED DEWEY CALL NUMBER (OCLC) |
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| Classification number |
811.6 |
| Item number |
M296 |
| 049 ## - LOCAL HOLDINGS (OCLC) |
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NFGA |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Mao, Sally Wen, |
| Relator term |
author. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
253841 |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
The kingdom of surfaces : |
| Remainder of title |
poems / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Sally Wen Mao. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE STATEMENTS |
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| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
Minneapolis, Minnesota : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
Graywolf Press, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
[2023] |
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©2023 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
126 pages ; |
| Dimensions |
23 cm |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE |
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| Content Type Term |
text |
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txt |
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rdacontent |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE |
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unmediated |
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n |
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rdamedia |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE |
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| Carrier Type Term |
volume |
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nc |
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rdacarrier |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-124). |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
"In The Kingdom of Surfaces, award-winning poet Sally Wen Mao examines art and history--especially the provenance of objects such as porcelain, silk, and pearls--to frame an important conversation on beauty, empire, commodification, and violence. In lyric poems and wide-ranging sequences, Mao interrogates gendered expressions such as the contemporary "leftover women," which denotes unmarried women, and the historical "castle-toppler," a term used to describe a concubine whose beauty ruins an emperor and his empire. These poems also explore the permeability of object and subject through the history of Chinese women in America, labor practices around the silk loom, and the ongoing violence against Asian people during the COVID-19 pandemic. At its heart, The Kingdom of Surfaces imagines the poet wandering into a Western fantasy, which covets, imitates, and appropriates Chinese aesthetics via Chinamania and the nineteenth-century Aesthetic movement, while perpetuating state violence upon actual lives. The title poem is a speculative recasting of "Through the Looking-Glass," set in a surreal topsy-turvy version of the China-themed 2015 Metropolitan Museum of Art Gala. The Kingdom of Surfaces is a brilliantly conceived call for those who recognize the horrors of American exceptionalism to topple the empire that values capital over lives and power over liberation."--Publisher. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
American poetry |
| Chronological subdivision |
21st century. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
66237 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
American poetry |
| General subdivision |
Chinese American authors. |
| 655 #7 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM |
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| Genre/form data or focus term |
Poetry. |
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lcgft |
| 9 (RLIN) |
6749 |
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