-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.---Terrance Hayes

- Mad Honey Symposium] 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

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...