A debut poetry collection moving through Hong Kong, Japan, food, myth, intimacy, fate; all the things concerned with having a self at all.

The poems are alert without becoming sealed-off little machines. They make room for image, spacing, visual marks, multilingual play, and sudden tonal turns. There are bowls, fish, tofu, mirrors, windows, bodies, trains of thought that refuse to stay safely on the tracks. Lovely.

Published by Tupelo Press, this is contemporary poetry with a particularly interesting cross-cultural charge: Hong Kong everydayness, philosophical drift, domestic strangeness, and lyric perception all folding into each other. A strong fit for readers of formally playful poetry, Asian diasporic writing, contemporary small press work, and books that treat the ordinary object as if it might be quietly plotting against ontology.

First edition, published by Tupelo Press in May 2025. Paperback. Very good near-new condition, with only minimal shelfwear. Cover and text clean and bright.