PORTAL Xu Huaizhong It spans the generations of

It spans the generations of literary voices

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

feminist fables starstruck with science and astronomy

of the little rituals

and life for a refugee in the West

PORTAL Xu Huaizhong It spans the generations ofTracy 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