AGNI 28
Contents
Editor’s NotePoetryArt FeatureFeatured Poet: Ha JinThe Used WorldThe Used World: Some Letters and Statements
Editor’s Note
Prefixes to the Self
Poetry
Art Feature
Cartoons
by Mary Lawton
Featured Poet: Ha Jin
Poetry
A Battalion Commander Complains to His Secretary
by Ha Jin
A Brother’s Advice
by Ha Jin
A Page from a Schoolboy’s Diary
by Ha Jin
A Thirteen-Year-Old Accuses His Teacher
by Ha Jin
A Young Worker’s Lament to His Former Girlfriend
by Ha Jin
Marching Towards Martyrdom
by Ha Jin
My Knowledge of the Russian Language
by Ha Jin
On the 20th National Anniversary
by Ha Jin
Promise
by Ha Jin
The Used World
Fiction
The Other Side
The Wizard
Beyond the Pale
from Chekhov Was a Doctor: Abraham and Isaac, Isaac the Truant
by Jack Pulaski
In the Kingdom of the Wise
by M. T. Sharif
Essays
The Garden and the Abyss: Columbus’ Journal and Three Caribbean Writers
The Poet in the Faubourg “Jewish”
Latin American Writing: Language and Spices, Resistance and Redemption
by Alan West
Poetry
Jimmy Hoffa’s Odyssey
by Ai
Holdfast
Northwest Passage
Two Faces
Gulag
by Teresa Cader
February 29, 1988
Minotaur Grief
Twomb
Nando Meets Papo
Two Mexicanos Lynched in Santa Cruz, California, May 3, 1877
White Night
by Ruth Feldman
Final Testament
Land Surveyor
Letter in My Desk
Kimble Fugit
Expression
by Rachel Hadas
What to Do
A Late Visit to Robert Graves
by Edwin Honig
A Portrait of the Master
Agganis
Noah
by Barbara Mann
Whiskey
The Broken Gull
Absences
What Anyone Really Wanted
The Call CM
by Carol Moldaw
The Crossroads
by Carol Moldaw
American Merchandise
“I Can Stand There in the Corner . . .”
The Winds of Saburtalo
Translated from the Ukrainian by Larissa M. L. Zaleska Onyshkevych
Taking Out the Trash
Separation
Mexico
by James Reiss
The World’s Fair Cities
Arrival Song
by David Rivard
The Road Out
by David Rivard
Harvard Square Postcard
Lies
from Facts of Life: Life Raft, What Does She See, What’s So Funny, “The Unbelievable”
by Mark Rudman
Among Friends
by Miriam Sagan
Beginner
The Refugee
Afterwords
by Tom Sleigh
Eve of Geneva
by Bruce Smith
I Pray for No More Reagans
by Bruce Smith
Of Hell
by Brian Swann
from Fight Scene: Fight Scene Beginning; Fight Scene, Part II; Fight Scene: Final Frames
from Omeros, Book III: Achille in Africa, IV–XI
The Used World: Some Letters and Statements
Essays
Letter to AGNI
Letter to AGNI
Letter to AGNI
by Gish Jen
Letter to AGNI
Letter to AGNI
Letter to AGNI
Letter to AGNI
Editor
Askold Melnyczuk
Askold Melnyczuk
Executive Editor
Sharon Dunn
Sharon Dunn
Managing Editor
Marcelle Hinand
Marcelle Hinand
Advisory Editor
Sven Birkerts
Sven Birkerts
Art Editor
Thomas Frick
Thomas Frick
Associate Editor
Fred Marchant
Fred Marchant
Editorial Assistants
Sean Patrick Broderick
Rebeca Fernandez
Kim Cooper
Sean Patrick Broderick, Rebeca Fernandez, Kim Cooper
Contributing Editors
Rosanna Warren
Derek Walcott
Harry Thomas
Sue Standing
Tom Sleigh
George Scialabba
Scott Ruescher
Robert Pinsky
Mary Morris
Marie Howe
James Galvin
Stuart Dischell
Steven Cramer
John J. Clayton
Thomas Bahr
Rosanna Warren, Derek Walcott, Harry Thomas, Sue Standing, Tom Sleigh, George Scialabba, Scott Ruescher, Robert Pinsky, Mary Morris, Marie Howe, James Galvin, Stuart Dischell, Steven Cramer, John J. Clayton, Thomas Bahr
Readers
Ray Isle
Mary Winnifred Hood
Ray Isle, Mary Winnifred Hood