piIron Goddess of Mercyiby Lambda Literary Award winner Larissa Lai for the novel iThe Tiger Flui is a long poem that captures the vengeful yet hopeful movement of the Furies mid-whirl and dance with them through the horror of the long now. Inspired by the tumultuous history of Hong Kong, from the Japanese and British occupations to the ongoing pro-democracy protests, the poem interrogates the complicated notion of identity, offering a prism through which the term Asian can be understood to make sense of a complex set of relations. The self crystallizes in moments of solidity, only to dissolve and whirl away again. The poet is a windsock, catching all the affect that blows at her and ballooning to fullness, only to empty again when the wind changes direction. iIron Goddess of Mercyi is a game of mah jong played deep into the night, an endless gamble.p pPresented in sixty-four fragments to honor the sixty-four hexagrams of the I Ching, iIron Goddess of Mercyi also borrows from haibun, a