AGNI 57
Contents
Editor’s Note
Essays
With How Sad Steps, O Moon
Lorca
Poetry
Two Dancers
The Elephant (from Natural History)
by Dan Chiasson
Invocation to the Heart
No One Knows What Tomorrow Is Called
by Wyn Cooper
A Scrap of Fabric at Chatham
Beautiful Treasure
From the Beginning On
Jacopone: On the Cobbles
Jacopone: The Scissors
Leaving the Farm
I Have Shuttered My Eyes with My Hands
Letter over a Thousand Years Late
Nagasaki, 1600
The Change
Survey
Triplets
by David Lehman
Austerlitz
The Point Beach
Welcome to Paradise
Frogs
by Evan Rail
Static
New Editor Sven Birkerts’s first issue. Includes work by Seamus Heaney, Maureen Howard, David Foster Wallace, Rosanna Warren, Rick Moody, Margot Livesey, Wesley McNair, Christopher Jane Corkery, Wolfgang Hilbig, David Wagoner, Maggie Dietz, Debora Greger, Nicholas Montemarano, Lise Haines, Lance Larsen, Harvey Blume, and many more. Pinhole photographs (including cover) by Jesseca Ferguson.
| Editor | Sven Birkerts | ||
| Founding Editor | Askold Melnyczuk | ||
| Managing Editor | Eric Grunwald | ||
| Associate Fiction Editor | Jennifer Joerg Blum | ||
| Associate Poetry Editor | Rachel DeWoskin | ||
| Advisory Board | Leslie Epstein | ||
| Robert Pinsky | |||
| Derek Walcott | |||
| Editor Emerita | Sharon Dunn | ||
| Editorial Assistants | John Daniels | ||
| Elisabeth Donnelly | |||
| Adam Fagin | |||
| William Giraldi | |||
| Heather Heckman-McKenna | |||
| Katie Krell | |||
| Susanna Lamey | |||
| Renée Nichols | |||
| Avi Yulish | |||
| Contributing Editors | Thomas Bahr | ||
| Erin Belieu | |||
| Lucie Brock-Broido | |||
| John J. Clayton | |||
| William Corbett | |||
| Stuart Dischell | |||
| Sharon Dunn | |||
| Thomas Sayers Ellis | |||
| Marie Howe | |||
| Diana Der-Hovanessian | |||
| Ha Jin | |||
| Alex Johnson | |||
| Susan Johnson | |||
| Fred Marchant | |||
| Fiona McCrae | |||
| Gail Mazur | |||
| Joe Osterhaus | |||
| Dzvinia Orlowsky | |||
| George Packer | |||
| Solomea Pavlychko | |||
| Liam Rector | |||
| Scott Ruescher | |||
| George Scialabba | |||
| Tom Sleigh | |||
| Sue Standing | |||
| Rosanna Warren | |||
| Oksana Zabuzhko |