PositiveThe Brooklyn RailOnce the internet and social media seem to merge everyone into a single hivemind, there is no longer an interpersonal connection that preserves the distinction between you and I and the sense of the unconscious, the self that is other. In Wang’s collection, the poems that save us from the void cast the same kind of spell as dreams ... The infiltration of capitalism into every aspect of life, facilitated by the internet, erases the boundaries between individual people, and between the conscious and the unconscious. In The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us from the Void , poems and dreams reinforce our sense of these boundaries by \'invading\' them.
