This volume brings together eight essays that examine the relevance of Gianni Rodari's kaleidoscopic work a hundred years after his birth. Cristiana De Santis explores how Rodari's lesson in creating poetry with children rejuvenated the themes and language of poetic texts for school and ushered in a period of metalinguistic and grammatical poetry. Veronica Ujcich approaches the question of error from multiple perspectives and concludes her examination...

Yahya Kemal is, in one word, “The Poet of Our Civilization.” In his poems and prose writings, one can always feel the fresh breath of a community, a power that, for centuries, has made its presence felt in various regions of the world, achieving victories not only on the material plane but also in the realms of meaning and aesthetics.Born in the last quarter of the 19th century in Skopje, which was then an Ottoman town, Yahya Kemal briefly experienced...

Diamela Eltit's idea of community is a political stance that combines art and life and proposes a direct dialogue with Jean-Luc Nancy's concept of literary communism. It is a practice of articulating diverse plural voices from a common space bordering on openness to the other, forming an act of communication that entails "the communist interruption of class domination, social stratification, and power"—that is, different types of graphic, somatographic,...

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