July 2011

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Volume 85 No. 4, July 2011

In the July 2011 issue of WLT, readers are invited to listen in on The Many Voices of Italian Literature, among them Dacia Maraini, Amara Lakhous, Tiziano Scarpa, Ermanno Cavazzoni, and ten poets. Also new to this issue: a special section devoted to novelist Han Shaogong, winner of the 2011 Newman Prize for Chinese Literature, plus additional contributions by Singapore's O Thiam Chin (fiction) and Poland's Julia Hartwig (poetry).

Voices of Italian Literature

INTERVIEW
A Conversation with Dacia Maraini

by Monica Seger
ESSAY "Darkness at the Heart of Recent Italian Literature," Antony Shugaar
POETRY Andrea Zanzotto, Fernanda Romagnoli, Luciano Erba, Tiziano Scrap
Gianni Celati, Antonella Anedda, Valerio Magrelli, and Alessio Zanelli
FICTION "Issa," Amara Lakhous
POETRY
"The Glory"

by Maria Luisa Spaziani
POETRY
"Chatting"

by Pier Luigi Bacchini
POETRY
"The Atlantic Day," Patrizia Cavalli

by Patrizia Cavalli
ESSAY "Gianni Celati and "Plain" Storytelling in Contemporary Italy," Jamie Richards
POETRY WEB EXCLUSIVE
Silhouettes

by Ascanio Celestini
POETRY WEB EXCLUSIVE
Three Micropoems from Dimenticatoio

by Leonardo Sinisgalli
POETRY WEB EXCLUSIVE
Three Poems, Julian Stannard

by Julian Stannard
FICTION WEB EXCLUSIVE
Two Fictions, Ermanno Cavazzoni

by Ermanno Cavazzoni

Newman Prizewinner Han Shaogong

SPEECH
The 2011 Newman Prize Lecture: "Pointing to New Clarity with New Perplexity"

by Han Shaogong
ESSAY "Dropped off the Map: Han Shaogong's Maqiao," Julia Lovell
FICTION "Beginning (End)," Han Shaogong
ESSAY WEB EXCLUSIVE
"Empty Talk: The Roots of Han Shaogong's Writing"

by Mark Leenhouts