AGNI 68
Contents
Editor’s Note
Essays
Poetry
Art Feature
Inscapes and crossings. Michael Mazur’s cover rendering of Dantean passage sets the tone for an issue rich with transformative broodings and hard-won exclamations. Poetry by Rita Dove, Robert Pinsky, Richard Kenney, Alan Williamson, and many others resonates against powerful translations of Vasyl Makhno, Tomas Venclova, René Char, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Nelly Sachs. Stories by Charles Haverty, Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Anis Shivani, and Gary Amdahl seem to call to nuanced meditations by Lia Purpura, Brian Christian, and Nadia Gregor. This is a partial listing, to be sure. The issue also features a first-ever DVD—Robert Gardner’s documentary celebration of our portfolio artist Michael Mazur at work on his print illustrations of Robert Pinsky’s striking translations of the Italian master.
| Editor | Sven Birkerts | ||
| Founding Editor | Askold Melnyczuk | ||
| Senior Editor | William Pierce | ||
| Sr. Fiction Editor | William Giraldi | ||
| Fiction Editors | Jessica Keener | ||
| William Charles Delman | |||
| Poetry Editors | Lynne Potts | ||
| Jay Deshpande | |||
| Asst. Poetry Editor | Sumita Chakraborty | ||
| Advisory Board | Leslie Epstein | ||
| Robert Pinsky | |||
| Derek Walcott | |||
| Rosanna Warren | |||
| Editorial Assistants | Heather Hughes | ||
| S. A. Spieller | |||
| Sean A. Higgins | |||
| Susan Muensterman | |||
| Alexandra Goldstein | |||
| Beth Romano | |||
| Contributing Editors | Lucie Brock-Broido | ||
| John J. Clayton | |||
| William Corbett | |||
| Stuart Dischell | |||
| Sharon Dunn, ed. emerita | |||
| Thomas Sayers Ellis | |||
| Marie Howe | |||
| Diane Der-Hovanessian | |||
| Ha Jin | |||
| Alex Johnson | |||
| Susan Johnson | |||
| Fred Marchant | |||
| Fiona McCrae | |||
| Gail Mazur | |||
| Joe Osterhaus | |||
| Dzvinia Orlowsky | |||
| Liam Rector (1949-2007) | |||
| George Scialabba | |||
| Tom Sleigh | |||
| Sue Standing | |||
| Oksana Zabuzhko |