AGNI 33
Contents
Editor's Note
Essays
An Armenian Journal
What Lies Ahead for Central America?
by Noam Chomsky
Robert Mapplethorpe’s Photographs
The Spirit Was Willing and So Was the Flesh
Because We Have No Time: Recent Ukrainian Poetry
My War in Four Episodes
Poetry
Jealousy
by Bina Agarwal
from The Octaves of Mourning: Her Glance
Translated from Russian by Judith Hemschemeyer
A Little Pregnant Woman Walks in the Park
Translated from Spanish by Garry Emmons
from Prayers: 9, 13, 24
Translated from Ukrainian by Bohdan Rubchak and Askold Melnyczuk
from Sonnets for My Grandfather: II. The Medicine Cabinet, IV. Grandfather’s Will, VIII. His House in Spain
by Rafael Campo
Barracuda
Making Ends Meet
The Roll Call
from Works and Days: (prayer), lift
The Cathedral of the Mind
December 26, 1988
Placement
Pasco, Barbara
God Talk
by Edwin Honig
Imaginary Loves
by Edwin Honig
Bucharest, 1981
by Mark Irwin
On Language
by Mark Irwin
Protection: For Jay at the Big Three-O
Fine Weather
Translated from Turkish by Richard Schwarzenberger and Grace Martin Smith
For the Homeland
Translated from Turkish by Richard Schwarzenberger and Grace Martin Smith
Illusion
Translated from Turkish by Richard Schwarzenberger and Grace Martin Smith
Stretched Out
Translated from Turkish by Richard Schwarzenberger and Grace Martin Smith
Higher Ground
by Joseph Lease
The Nest
by Carol Moldaw
The Window Box
by Carol Moldaw
At the National Home
In Winter
Luba Doesn’t Have the Mouse
Dulce
Leda, After the Swan
Reified Broker Ponders Options
by Liam Rector
The Night the Lightening Bugs Lit Last in the Field Then Went Their Way
by Liam Rector
Your Livid Early Days
by Liam Rector
Lines Written During an Autumn Invasion
Male and Female Mountains
by Miriam Sagan
Legacy
Saviour
by Don Share
Eternity, A List
The Sunday Drive
by Luis Urrea
Science Lessons
For Martha
by Franz Wright
Pour un jeune Chalamoun qui se vend dans la rue
Translated from Slovenian by Michael Biggins
Editor
Askold Melnyczuk
Askold Melnyczuk
Executive Editor
Sharon Dunn
Sharon Dunn
Managing Editor
Jennifer Rose
Jennifer Rose
Editorial Assistants
John Mulrooney
Sandra McLeod
Benjamin Kleiber
Natalie Gerber
Ethan Forman
John Mulrooney, Sandra McLeod, Benjamin Kleiber, Natalie Gerber, Ethan Forman
Advisory Board
Derek Walcott
Robert Pinsky
Leslie Epstein
Derek Walcott, Robert Pinsky, Leslie Epstein
Contributing Editors
Rosanna Warren
Sue Standing
Tom Sleigh
George Scialabba
Scott Ruescher
Dzvinia Orlowsky
Gail Mazur
Fred Marchant
Diana Der-Hovanessian
Marie Howe
Martín Espada
Stuart Dischell
William Corbett
John J. Clayton
Sven Birkerts
Thomas Bahr
Rosanna Warren, Sue Standing, Tom Sleigh, George Scialabba, Scott Ruescher, Dzvinia Orlowsky, Gail Mazur, Fred Marchant, Diana Der-Hovanessian, Marie Howe, Martín Espada, Stuart Dischell, William Corbett, John J. Clayton, Sven Birkerts, Thomas Bahr