WLT Book Reviews | November 2013

FICTION

VERSE

MISCELLANEOUS

African Lives: An Anthology of Memoirs and Autobiographies
Geoff Wisner, ed.
Calcutta: Two Years in the City
Amit Chaudhuri
Tiananmen Fictions Outside the Square: The Chinese Literary Diaspora and the Politics of Global Culture
Belinda Kong
To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction and Portrait Inside My Head: Essays
Phillip Lopate
La lámpara maravillosa: Cuatro ensayos sobre la educación y un elogio a la lectura
William Ospina

NOTA BENES

Nota Benes, November/December 2013

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Writing the Great Recession

by Daniel Simon

INTRO

by Jeanetta Calhoun Mish

ESSAY “Australian Working-class Writing” by Sarah Attfield

ESSAY WEB EXCLUSIVE

by Jeanetta Calhoun Mish

ESSAY “I Am a Poet of Workers and Peasants” Working-class Poets of Pakistan by Qalandar Bux Memon & Zeeshan Yousaf

ESSAY WEB EXCLUSIVE

by Eun-Gwi Chung

ESSAY “My City’s Million Voices Chiding Me” “Answerability” and Modern Irish Working-class Writers by Michael Pierse

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by Alan Morrison

POETRY “Cockatoo Island” by Sarah Attfield

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by Ibtisam Barakat

POETRY “I know many places well – some I can still smell” by Elizabeth Hodgson

POETRY “Poet” by Arif Shah

POETRY WEB EXCLUSIVE

by Arif Shah

POETRY “Twigworth Yews” by Alan Morrison

POETRY Three Poems by Ewa Parma

POETRY “Blue” by Zheng Xiaoqiong

SONG LYRICS “The Hard Road” by Hilltop Hoods

INTERVIEW “Coal Miner’s Daughter: An Interview with Ewa Parma” by Karen Kovacik

EXCERPT

by Peppe Fiore

EXCERPT “The Ranks of Winners” by Michela Murgia

16 American Working-class Poets

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by Hakim Bellamy

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by Jeanne Bryner

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by Jim Daniels

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by Brian Fanelli

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by Rain C. Goméz

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by Allison Adelle Hedge Coke

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by Kathleen Hellen

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by Quraysh Ali Lansana

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by Dorianne Laux

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by Joseph Millar

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by Jason Poudrier

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by Levi Romero

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by Aaron Rudolph

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by Sandee Gertz Umbach

WEB EXCLUSIVE

by Jeanetta Calhoun Mish

WEB EXCLUSIVE

by Karen J. Weyant

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Essays

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by Andrew Piper

“So Who Has Time to Read? Mediterranean Blue-collar Noir, Part 2” by J. Madison Davis

Fiction

“A Single Drop of Blood” by Alexis Jenni

“The History Teacher” by Anzhelina Polonskaya

Interviews

“Reinventing Spanish as a Literary Language: A Conversation with Álvaro Enrigue” by Peter Constatine

“All Things French (in Love and War): An Interview with Alexis Jenni” by Dinah Assouline Stillman

Poetry

“Tom Smithson Dead in His Garret” by José Manuel Cardona

Three Poems by Juan Gelman

“The Donegal Hock” by James McManus

Two poems by Anzhelina Polonskaya

Four Poems by Ludwig Steinherr

“If I Were” by Sybil Volks

by Ludwig Steinherr

WLT Book Reviews | November 2013

FICTION

The Old Man’s Love Story
Rudolfo Anaya

Love Is Power, or Something Like That
A. Igoni Barrett

The Dual Realm
Paola Capriolo. Gillian Ania & Doug Thompson, tr.

Ballade d’un amour inachevé
Louis-Philippe Dalembert.

The Donkey Lady and Other Tales from the Arabian Gulf
Patty Paine et al., ed.

Hypothermia
Álvaro Enrigue. Brendan Riley, tr.

On Sal Mal Lane
Ru Freeman

Københavnerpigen og journalisten
Ole Hyltoft

Diario de campo
Rosario Izquierdo Chaparro

Ljubljana Tales: A Collection of Central European Contemporary Writing
James Coon et al., ed.

The Woman Upstairs
Claire Messud

Petroleum Venus
Alexander Snegirev. Arch Tait, tr.

Le Hareng et le saxophone
Sylvie Weil

Rekkenskip
Harmen Wind

VERSE

Just Saying
Rae Armantrout

The Unknown University
Roberto Bolaño. Laura Healy, tr.

Łodzią jest i przystanią
Anna Frajlich

Our Obsidian Tongues
David Shook

MISCELLANEOUS

African Lives: An Anthology of Memoirs and Autobiographies
Geoff Wisner, ed.

Calcutta: Two Years in the City
Amit Chaudhuri

Tiananmen Fictions Outside the Square: The Chinese Literary Diaspora and the Politics of Global Culture
Belinda Kong

To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction and Portrait Inside My Head: Essays
Phillip Lopate

La lámpara maravillosa: Cuatro ensayos sobre la educación y un elogio a la lectura
William Ospina

NOTA BENES

Nota Benes, November/December 2013

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November 2013

Table of Contents

Writing the Great Recession

16 American Working-class Poets

In Every Issue

Essays

Fiction

Interviews

Poetry

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