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AGNI 100

Contents

Editor’s Note

The Page and Beyond

Fiction

Finals
Translated from the Spanish by Slava Faybysh
Resin and Wood
Translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky
Signs of Fatigue
She Went to the Museum to Look at the Nudes

Essays

Mother’s Hands: On Grief in 33 Beginnings
That Otherworldly Blue Glow
Sleep Study
Les Philosophes
Three Pieces

Poetry

Wanting to Live
Pharaoh
23V :: ¡Vanadium!
Winter Palace
Mother Trash
Cerberus
As Rivers Flow to the Ocean and Oceans Flow to the Sea
Lunar Body
Seeing Even with Patches on Both Eyes
Translated from the Korean by Cindy Juyoung Ok
Them Killing Fields Right in Our Own Backyards
that has been entrusted to us
Purgatorio 2: Rising Sounds on the Eighth Floor
Learning to Dress a Doe
Parking Lot
Whose bones this ocean
Cloud Study
The Photographer
Balancing Act
What Time Is This?
Translated from the Ukrainian by Bohdan Tokarsky and Nina Murray
Pantoum Composed of Lines after Paintings of Girls
I’m No Longer Eager for Danger
Both of My Hands Are Frightened
Vanished Qilou Building, Bali
Translated from the Chinese by Liang Yujing

Art Feature

Sultana’s Dream
The Artist’s Mark
AGNI 100

The marks the world leaves. Our hundredth issue exemplifies the engagement, nuance, and spirit that are AGNI’s trademark. Cover artist Chitra Ganesh starts things off with a playful visual rendering of “Sultana’s Dream,” a 1905 feminist utopian fiction by Rokeya Hossain. Stories by Colin Winnette, Xueyi Zhou, and Monique Schwitter (translated by Susan Bernofsky) follow women’s subversion of the gaze, into places of throttled emotion. A bounty of poets, including Paisley Rekdal, J. P. Grasser, and janan alexandra, join the formal ingenuities of DeeSoul Carson, Danielle Pierrati, and others to reach a new intimacy with the past. And essayists Wiam El-Tamami, Elvis Bego, and Anna Badkhen bring a rigorous, compassionate seeing to their meditations on loss and conflict. All this and much more.

Editors

Sven Birkerts

William Pierce

Senior Editor

Shuchi Saraswat

Senior Fiction Editor

Mary O'Donoghue

Senior Poetry Editor

Jennifer Kwon Dobbs

Poetry Editor

Jessica Q. Stark

Nonfiction Editor

George Estreich

Reviews Editor

Rachel Mennies

Blog Editors

Ryan Choi

Grace Singh Smith

Asst. Fiction Editors

Ben Black

Amber Caron

Ariel Courage

Assoc. Poetry Editor

Esteban Rodriguez

Asst. Poetry Editors

Dorsey Craft

Rachel Mennies

Issam Zineh

Editors at Large

Julia Brown

Jenny George

Newsletter Founder

Alison Lanier

Newsletter Introductions

Arielle Kaplan

Social (Facebook)

Effie Sapuridis

Blog Assistant

Cynthia Ayeza

Social (X)

Esteban Rodriguez

Arielle Kaplan

Social (Instagram)

Rachel Dillon

Editorial Assistants

Lily Seltz

Emma Claire Everett

Patrick Mulqueen

Louise Moran

Founding Editor

Askold Melnyczuk

Advisory Board

Leslie Epstein

Ha Jin

Robert Pinsky

Rosanna Warren

Contributing Editors

Sumita Chakraborty

John J. Clayton

Stuart Dischell

Jennifer Alise Drew

Sharon Dunn, ed. emerita

Anne Germanacos

Marie Howe

Alex Johnson

Dana Levin

Fred Marchant

Fiona McCrae

Gail Mazur

Dzvinia Orlowsky

E. C. Osondu

Lia Purpura

George Scialabba

Tom Sleigh

Sue Standing

Oksana Zabuzhko

Typesetting & Design

Gian Lombardo / Quale Press

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