PORTAL Xu Huaizhong Asuka Hishiki possesses not only

Asuka Hishiki possesses not only a sense of profound awe and wonder at the intricacies of the natural world

He sat for a while in the light of a blinking bulb that settled over the room like a grave illness

This isn’t a conventional book of academic essays

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PORTAL Xu Huaizhong Asuka Hishiki possesses not onlyTracy Fuads second collection of poems, PORTAL, probes the fraught experience of bringing a new life into a world that is both lush and filled with gloom. A baby is born in a brutalist building; the planet shrinks under the new logic of contagion; roses washed up from a shipwreck centuries ago are blooming up and down the cape. PORTAL documents a life that is mediated, even at its most intimate moments, by flattening interfaces of technology and in