AGNI 83
Contents
Editor’s Note
Birkerts and I
Fiction
Mornings and Evenings
Khati’ah
Duende
by Noy Holland
In the Rare Case
Rose Ivoire
The Children of New Orleans
The Plate-Spinner
by Steve Stern
Essays
Friendship, Deception, Writing: Within and Beyond Plato’s Lysis
Choreograph
The Dress Form
A Common Skin
by Anna Journey
Home
by Tyler Mills
Poetry
After Sappho: The Drill
Giacometti, Nine Figures
Elegy with a Gold Cradle
Pale Lieutenant at the Empire Ball
Ode to a Mockingbird
Limestone and Rain
by David Daniel
Questions for the Mariner
Translation from the Origins of Time
Recuerdo
Lower Animals
The Doubles
The Summer My Mother Said She Was Going to Drown Herself
Plaice
At the Grave
The Reckoning Reasoning
Some Postures to the Rock
by Sydney Lea
Fat Worm
Northern Wind
Ghazni
The Swallows
Translated from the Italian by Taije Silverman and Marina Della Putta Johnston
The Rooted Oar
Translated from the Italian by Taije Silverman and Marina Della Putta Johnston
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The Coconut-Water Man
Refraction and Its Ordinary Material
Pastoral
Inheritance
An Anatomical Study Concerning the North American Whitetail
by Casey Thayer
Bawlmer Crabs
by Casey Thayer
Catharsis with Mildred Pierce
by Sarah Viren
Adding One
by Sarah Viren
Montage with Mangos, Volcano, and Flooded Streets
Art Feature
Diary of the Future
by Lara Baladi
Vodka-Chamomile: cocktail for a revolution (essay)
by Lara Baladi
Reading the coffee grounds. Lara Baladi’s striking emblems of private and public divination set the interrogating mood: the issue features, in an array of genuine riches, poems by Barbara Helfgott Hyett, David Daniel, Cyrus Cassells, Hailey Leithauser, and also Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan in a kind of “poets’ dialogue” (translated by Kai Maristed); essays by Tyler Mills, Marya Hornbacher, and William Eaton; and stories by Steve Stern, Noy Holland, Stephen Dixon, and Melissa Pritchard.
| Editor | Sven Birkerts | ||
| Founding Editor | Askold Melnyczuk | ||
| Senior Editor | William Pierce | ||
| Asst. Poetry Editor | Sumita Chakraborty | ||
| Poetry Editor | Lynne Potts | ||
| Fiction Editor | William Giraldi | ||
| Mary O'Donoghue | |||
| Prose Editor | Jennifer Alise Drew | ||
| Blog Editor | David Ebenbach | ||
| Readers | Brian Burt | ||
| Erin Trahan | |||
| Galley Editors | Lindsay Guth | ||
| Beth Romano | |||
| Emily Pineau | |||
| Social Media | Sumita Chakraborty | ||
| Rachel Mennies | |||
| Marketing | Daniel Pritchard | ||
| Steven LaFond | |||
| Newsletter Director | Alison Lanier | ||
| Advisory Board | Leslie Epstein | ||
| Robert Pinsky | |||
| Derek Walcott | |||
| Rosanna Warren | |||
| Editorial Assistants | Alison Lanier | ||
| Hannah Jansen | |||
| D. Eric Parkison | |||
| Jason Villemez | |||
| Damilola Aderibigbe | |||
| Emily Frisella | |||
| Contributing Editors | Lucie Brock-Broido | ||
| John J. Clayton | |||
| William Corbett | |||
| Stuart Dischell | |||
| Sharon Dunn, ed. emerita | |||
| Anne Germanacos | |||
| Thomas Sayers Ellis | |||
| Marie Howe | |||
| Diana Der-Hovanessian | |||
| Ha Jin | |||
| Alex Johnson | |||
| Dana Levin | |||
| Fred Marchant | |||
| Fiona McCrae | |||
| Gail Mazur | |||
| Dzvinia Orlowsky | |||
| Lia Purpura | |||
| George Scialabba | |||
| Tom Sleigh | |||
| Sue Standing | |||
| Oksana Zabuzhko |