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Classics Rekindled
Ancient fires, modern words
Six writers invoke classic literary worlds, from ancient Greece and pre-Columbian Mesoamerica to nineteenth-century Europe. “One must live like fire,” writes Jean-Paul Michel. From Sappho and Dante to Dostoevsky and Rimbaud, each generation of writers must reinvent tradition. Here, six writers nurture the flame.
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Frederick Turner
A review of The Gardens of Flora Baum, by Julia Budenz, 5 vols. (Chelmsford, Massachusetts: Carpathia Press, 2011) It is, perhaps, asking too much to expect a reader, who has not lived in th...
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William Black
Photo by Fey Ilyas/Flickr The immense space of the supersensible. . . is filled for us with dark night.— Immanuel Kant...
Table of Contents
2013 NSK Neustadt Laureate Naomi Shihab Nye
Editor’s Note
by Daniel Simon
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
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
Essays
“Fire in the House” by Michel-Rolph Trouillot
“A Network of Holes” by Cristina Rivera Garza
Poetry
Two Poems by Fabio Morábito
Fiction
“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
by M. Lynx Qualey
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
by Daniel Simon
Outpost: Fretex, Oslo
What She Laughingly Calls Her Career: Susan Moody on Thirty Years of Writing (and Almost as Many Books)
Interviews
“”A Place for the Creative Imagination as Never Before” David Edgecombe on Theater, Film, and New Media in the Caribbean” by Erika J. Waters