January 2014

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Volume 88 No. 1, January 2014

The January 2014 issue of WLT showcases the life and work of Naomi Shihab Nye, winner of the 2013 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature, and “Classics Rekindled,” a special section featuring six writers who nurture the flame of literary tradition. Other highlights include Nahuatl poetry, Catalan fiction, Caribbean theater, and Haitian Creole creative nonfiction. And as always, don’t miss the wealth of new books and book reviews from around the globe.

2013 NSK Neustadt Laureate Naomi Shihab Nye

Editor’s Note, January 2014
INTRO: “A Tribute to Naomi Shihab Nye” by Ibtisam Barakat
POETRY: “Table of Continents” by Ibtisam Barakat
SPEECH: “Landscapes We Learn to Love” The 2013 NSK Neustadt Prize Lecture by Naomi Shihab Nye
POETRY: “Arabs in Finland” by Naomi Shihab Nye
POETRY: “Business” by Naomi Shihab Nye

Classics Rekindled

WEB EXCLUSIVE “The Persistence of Romanticism in World Literature” by William Black
INTERVIEW: “Ancient Words, Modern Words A Conversation with Anne Carson” by Peter Constantine
CREATIVE NONFICTION: The most burning part of you remaining: your torment” by Jean-Paul Michel
POETRY: “Ex-voto” by Jean-Paul Michel
POETRY: “Rotator Cuff Vortex” by Lucia Perillo
ESSAY: “Innocents Aloud” by Francesca Segal
POETRY: “A Poet Was Here” by Sylva Fischerová
POETRY: “In Lands Imagination Favors” by Don Schofield
WEB EXCLUSIVE BOOK REVIEW: “A Garden of Forking Paths” by Frederick Turner

ESSAYS

WEB EXCLUSIVE “Eduard Màrquez’s Zugzwang: Cosmpolitanism, Minority, Translation” by Lawrence Venuti
“Fire in the House” by Michel-Rolph Trouillot
“A Network of Holes” by Cristina Rivera Garza
WEB EXCLUSIVE “Should Books Be Sold?” by Ilan Stavans

POETRY

WEB EXCLUSIVE “Chikome Xochitl: A Poem in Seven Parts” by Juan Hernández Ramírez
Two Poems by Fabio Morábito

FICTION

WEB EXCLUSIVE “Loneliness” by Eduard Màrquez
“Nechama’s Gun” by Joshua Bernstein
Two Fictions by Eduard Màrquez

IN EVERY ISSUE

City Profile: Medieval Modernity Untouched, Siena, Itlay
What to Read Now: Arabic Books for Teens
Author Profile: Mia Couto, Winner of the 2014 Neustadt International Prize for Literature
New Books: Crime Scenes
Editor’s Pick: The Dailiness by Lauren Camp
Outpost: Fretex, Oslo