FOUR WAY REVIEW

An Electronic Literary Journal

Author: Cleo Qian

  • INTERVIEW WITH Ayesha Raees

    INTERVIEW WITH Ayesha Raees

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    Cleo Qian
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    Ayesha Raees’ fabulist and fable-like chapbook, Coining a Wishing Tower (Platypus Press Broken River Prize winner, 2020, selected by Kaveh Akbar), is composed of 56 prose-like blocks—give or a take a few half-fragments. These prose-poems, which are whimsical, profound, vulnerable, and full of pathos, grief, and transformation, depict complex relationships between parents and child, religion…

  • [MY GRANDFATHER WALKED IN THE SNOW] by Cleo Qian

    [MY GRANDFATHER WALKED IN THE SNOW] by Cleo Qian

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    Cleo Qian
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               after Cathy Linh Che  My grandfather walked in the snowWith his green jacket& plastic bag On the balcony we builta short snowmanwith a cold carrot My grandfather had a very thickhead of hairLong eyebrows…bright eyes He told us storiesHe made us toastHe fought in the warHe knew the word “MONSTER”And…