AGNI 24 and 25
Contents
Editor’s Note
Fiction
Yodeling
from Dig
Sister
The Music Student
Babylove
No Friends, All Strangers
by Lucy Honig
Quicksand
by Diane Lefer
Birthday
Advancing La Crosse
The Eloquence of Light
The Gorge
Staying Under
Roof Raising
Night in the Piazza
Poetry
Migration
by Tom Absher
Tellurian
No Aubade
Cézanne: The Ruined Chateau
White Shoulders
by Robert Bagg
Nocturne
by Eavan Boland
Suburban Woman: A Detail
by Eavan Boland
Lace
by Eavan Boland
Walt Whitman in Ohio
Diaspora
Everybody’s Business
Two Traveling Women and the Houdini Man
Fishing Trip
To Mary, Who Is Married Now
Sisyphus Inverted
Bees, Los Conquistadores
Guest
by Debra Hines
The Split
by Marie Howe
Menses
by Marie Howe
Song of the Spinster
by Marie Howe
The Answer is in the Garden
Ambassador of Imperfect Mood
The Advent of Common Law in Littoral Disputes
Catalpa
by Paul Mariani
Growing Up Ukrainian
The Ordinary Weather of Summer
by Linda Pastan
Woman Turning and Lifting Train
Woman Turning, Throwing Kiss, and Walking Upstairs
Man Walking Downstairs Backwards, Turning, Walking Away While Carrying Rock
7-Eleven
by Karen Propp
Doug
Star
Why Cities Have Farmer’s Markets
On Mallarmé’s Plan
by J. P. White
Stone Work
from Work Sonnets: “Just now it was like I had risen to heaven.”; “Music builds the perfect shelter.”; “How slow the Hired Body moves!”
by Daniel Wolff
One Way the Faithful Learn to Dance
by Gene Zeiger
Feature Poets: Agni 4-22 (A Sampler)
Poetry
Wings
Leaf
Before Spring
Head of a Young Girl
Sleep Neighbors
Fool’s Gold
A Letter of Introduction
by Barbara Eve
Household
by Maria Flook
The Housewright’s Mercy
Rapture
Wanting You To
Strauss and the Cows of Ireland
Cézanne was not Very Good at Inter-
Last Letter
Approaching Forty Devils
by Jane Miller
Cold
A Primer for Those Who Have Dealings with the Gods
by Jordan Smith
His Statue to Pygmalion
Featured Poet: Lucie Brock-Broido
Poetry
A Little Piece of Everlasting Life
Put Your Little Shoes Away
Autobiography
Noctilucent
I Think Deeply of Ruin
Constellation of the Birds
AGNI 24/25 is the teeming Fifteenth Anniversary double issue. The work of Lucie Brock-Broido, the feature poet, radiates alongside a sampler of new work by earlier feature poets, such as Melissa Green and Mekeel McBride, and poems by William Logan, Marie Howe, Debora Greger, Wayne Koestenbaum, Eavan Boland, and Linda Pastan. This energy carries over to the fiction in the issue as well. Stories by David Bosworth, Arturo Vivante, Joyce Carol Oates, Marjorie Sandor, and others take us to the center of grief, panic, and compassion.
| Founding Editor | Askold Melnyczuk | ||
| Editor | Sharon Dunn | ||
| Fiction Editor | John J. Clayton | ||
| Contributing Editor | Sven Birkerts | ||
| Managing Editor | Matthew Childs | ||
| Poetry Readers | Edward Adams | ||
| Susan Bartfay | |||
| Midge Eiselle | |||
| Fiction Readers | Trish Crapo | ||
| Katie Greenebaum | |||
| Dan Hayes | |||
| Randall Howe | |||
| Bill Lawren | |||
| Geoff Macdonald | |||
| Editorial Assistant | Andi Werblin |