A review by cstefko
The Kingdom of Surfaces: Poems by Sally Wen Mao

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

The middle section based around Alice In Wonderland and the Met did not really work for me, but the rest of the poems more than made up for it. I think I had read a few of these poems before, specifically some of the pandemic-related ones, but they still felt fresh. I also appreciated the continuation of her focus on Anna May Wong from her previous collection.