AGNI 102
Contents
Editor’s Note
Fiction
What It Is
by Reyumeh Ejue
Everything Must Go
The Submariner Signs Off
by Alex Ralph
The Garden
Essays
Convergence
by Rilla Askew
Outro
she didn’t let her tell her that she loved her . . .
Exercises in Style
What Is Given
by Diane Comer
The Tongue Remembers
As the Crow Flies
by Lia Purpura
Core Samples, or, Experiments with Days
by Lia Purpura
Storycatcher
by Lia Purpura
Emmerich’s Wounds
Poetry
The Order of Things
The Sixth Combat
Night of the Iguana
Picture Postcard from a Hole in the Garden
by Bruce Bond
How Senior Living Lets Us Know Someone Has Died
by Fleda Brown
Flight of Ideas
Crisis
The war headline says
This Is a Fish
by Majda Gama
Thin Ice
by James Geary
from They pass through, and see through us
Translated from the French by Susanna Lang
First Love
by Alen Hamza
Florida Is a Place on Earth
by Siew Hii
Florida Is a Place on Earth with Very Broad Open-Records Laws
by Siew Hii
The Boys’ Room
Let Me Put It This Way
Interior Scroll
Salvage
by Susan Nguyen
So Much of This Life
by Susan Nguyen
Prime
Power
Breakfast
The Guessing Game
by Josh Tvrdy
Knife for Decisively Cutting Off Floating Clouds
by Yan An
Translated from the Chinese by Chen Du and Xisheng Chen
Sometimes Someone Is Only a Shadow
by Yan An
Translated from the Chinese by Chen Du and Xisheng Chen
Crisis and talismans. The threaded objects of Lia Purpura front an issue intent on noticing, holding, and putting forward. Siew Hii, Carl Phillips, and Denise Duhamel (in poetry) and Donald Quist and Rilla Askew (in nonfiction) confront the wiliness of false narrative. Stories by Scholastique Mukasonga (translated by Mark Polizzotti) and Niamh Mac Cabe, with poems by Megan Fernandes and Fereshteh Sari, trace the veins of complicity. And stories by Subhravanu Das and Reyumeh Ejue, with poems by Brenda Hillman, Kimberly Quiogue Andrews, and Peter Balakian, discover honest, tenuous shelter.