AGNI 20
Contents
Fiction
Crowe Bovey’s Burning Cold
The Summer of Writing Movies
Poetry
Translating
The Liquid Face
The Original Face
The Vagrant Face
Old Lovers Drinking Together
by David Dwyer
The Scarecrow
from A Cloud No Bigger than a Woman’s Hand: III.iv, III.v, IV. Holy Writ
On My Mother’s Birthday
The Burden of the Desert Sea
The Shootist
from Learning Gravity
by Thomas Lynch
Begonia
by Edward Mayes
Fly By Night
by Edward Mayes
In Brooklyn
by Karen Propp
Poem
by Karen Propp
The Men in Paris
by Karen Propp
Dog Gone Ode
For Starts
Mouse Chase
Taking the Cue
The Threat of Another New England Winter and a Faltering Economy Drives Me Deep into the Woods
by Ira Sadoff
First Couple
Nocturne
You
from Archer in the Marrow: The Applewood Cycles: MOTIFS: Archer in the Marrow; Duel on Land’s End; EPILOGUE: Prologue to New Spiral
The Orange
Les Enfants de Paradis
by David Wojahn
Reviews
On Jackson’s Acts of Mind and Berg’s In Praise of What Persists
Mise-en-scènes. AGNI 20 whips with blizzards, bare trees, and frozen lakes—from Joyce Carol Oates’s ice-storm setting, to Ira Sadoff’s meditations on economic inequality and New England winters, to Frank Stewart’s quiet depiction of two children skating on thin ice. Richard Jones’s summertime story of writing film scripts pairs with David Wojahn’s lyrical evocation of going to the movies (specifically, the 1945 French film Les Enfants du paradis). And there’s much more, including poems by Diane Wakoski, Peter Viereck, Thomas Lynch, and William Harmon; fiction by Carolyn Chute and Richard Jones; and William Harmon’s reviews of works by Richard Jackson and Stephen Berg.
Founding Editor
Askold Melnyczuk
Askold Melnyczuk
Editor
Sharon Dunn
Sharon Dunn
Associate Editors
Norman Dukes
Bruce B. Anderson
Norman Dukes, Bruce B. Anderson
Contributing Editors
Sven Birkerts
Grant Kornberg
Sven Birkerts, Grant Kornberg
Assistant Editor
Michael Grover
Michael Grover
Editorial Assistants
Maria C. Kassberg
Margaret Merfeld
Garrett L. Mullen
Maria C. Kassberg, Margaret Merfeld, Garrett L. Mullen