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Volume 85 Number 2, March/April 2011

Chinese poet Duo Duo, winner of the 2010 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, headlines the March 2011 issue of WLT. Also, check out the special section devoted to Jazz Poetry, with poems by Virgil Suárez, Nii Parkes, Adrian Matejka, LaurenCamp, and Virgil Mihaiu. Additional highlights include an essay by Adrianne Kalfopoulou (Greece), new fiction by Luay Hamza Abbas (Iraq), and poetry by Jan Wagner (Germany) and Romeo Çollaku (Albania).

Table of Contents

SPECIAL SECTION: Neustadt Laureate Duo Duo

  • Duo Duo’s acceptance speech and biographical profile
  • Duo Duo new poems, trans. Yibing Huang
  • Michelle Yeh, “Monologue of a Stormy Soul: Duo Duo, 1972–88"
  • Yibing Huang, "Duo Duo: Master of Wishful Thinking"

SPECIAL SECTION: Jazz Poetry
Guest edited by Lauren Camp

EDITOR'S NOTE

LETTERS

NOTEBOOK

CRIME & MYSTERY

  • J. Madison Davis, “Scarface Al and His Pals”

POETRY

  • Romeo Çollaku (Albania), Two poems, tr. Peter Constantine
  • Stuart Friebert (US), “Good Leg Up, Bad Leg Down"
  • Jan Wagner (Germany) Two poems, tr. Chenxin Jiang

Q&A: WLT INTERVIEWS

  • Erwin Koch (Switzerland) by John K. Cox

ESSAYS

FICTION

  • Luay Hamza Abbas (Iraq), “Spit Out What Is in Your Mouth,” tr. Yasmeen Hanoosh

WORLD LITERATURE IN REVIEW

OUTPOSTS: Literary Events & Landmarks