Cenzontle by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
Cenzontle by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo Reviewer’s note: this review was originally written for The East Bay Review April 16, 2018. In his A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize–winning debut, Marcelo Hernandez Castillo conjures a lush, breathing landscape that permeates and...
Each Gutsy Redecorated Cell: Wren Hanks’s The Rise of Genderqueer
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Sparkling new queer Asian literature? Let’s GO!![]()
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Check out Joanna Acevedo’s review of Cleo Qian (@clllqian)’s debut short story collection, “LET'S GO LET'S GO LET'S GO” on the Foglifter blog. Released by Tin House, this electric collection is full of dating simulations, social experiments, supernatural karaoke machines, and so much more. ![]()
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“Cleo Qian’s Let’s Go Let’s Go Let’s Go, set alternately in Japan, China, Korea and America, is reminiscent of a disco ball—no matter which way you turn it, it remains luminous, catching the light and sending shards of brilliance into the air...We, the reader, are looking at these women. Perhaps we are the only ones who are. They ache to be seen, and as welook at them, we learn more about what it means to look, to be overlooked, what it means to be a woman, what it means to be a minority, and somehow, we learn more about ourselves as well.”![]()
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