January 2011

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Volume 85 No. 1, January 2011

The January/February 2011 issue of WLT, guest edited by Pireeni Sundaralingam, listens in on The Crosstalk between Science and Literature, with original artwork by our book review editor, Marla Johnson, on the cover, and a fascinating lineup of ten contributors.

The Crosstalk between Science and Literature

INTRO
Carving Out New Territories

by Pireeni Sundaralingam
INTERVIEW
Bridging the Two Cultures: A Conversation between Alan Lightman and Rebecca Newberger Goldstein

by Alan Lightman, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
ESSAY
Science and Poetry: Predation or Symbiosis?

by Pireeni Sundaralingam
POETRY "Chemical Weather," Suzanne Lummis
POETRY "Asymmetries," Philip Metres
POETRY "Growing Old," Vincenzo Della Mea
POETRY Two Poems, Tone Hødnebø
ESSAY "The Long Poem of Walking," Eric Ellingsen
SPEECH "Poet in a White Coat," Dannie Abse
ESSAY "Diagonally Toward the Sublime: Science in the Theater," Kenneth Lin

Poetry

Two Poems, Pattiann Rogers
Six Nicaraguan Poems, Esthela Calderón and Rosario Murillo
Two Poems, Panna Naik
WEB EXCLUSIVE
Two Poems by Esthela Calderón from Soplo de corriente vital (2008)

by Esthela Calderón
Two Poems

by Natalia Toledo