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 the Russian by Judith Hemschemeyer
A Little Pregnant Woman Walks in the Park
Translated from the Spanish by Garry Emmons
from Prayers: 9, 13, 24
Translated from the Ukrainian by Bohdan Rubchak and Askold Melnyczuk
from Prayers: 1
Translated from the 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
The Roll Call
Barracuda
Making Ends Meet
from Works and Days: (prayer), lift
The Cathedral of the Mind
December 26, 1988
Placement
Pasco, Barbara
Imaginary Loves
by Edwin Honig
God Talk
by Edwin Honig
On Language
by Mark Irwin
Bucharest, 1981
by Mark Irwin
Protection: For Jay at the Big Three-O
Illusion
Translated from the Turkish by Richard Schwarzenberger and Grace Martin Smith
Stretched Out
Translated from the Turkish by Richard Schwarzenberger and Grace Martin Smith
Fine Weather
Translated from the Turkish by Richard Schwarzenberger and Grace Martin Smith
For the Homeland
Translated from the Turkish by Richard Schwarzenberger and Grace Martin Smith
Higher Ground
by Joseph Lease
The Window Box
by Carol Moldaw
The Nest
by Carol Moldaw
In Winter
Luba Doesn’t Have the Mouse
At the National Home
Dulce
Leda, After the Swan
Reified Broker Ponders Options
by Liam Rector
Your Livid Early Days
by Liam Rector
The Night the Lightening Bugs Lit Last in the Field Then Went Their Way
by Liam Rector
Lines Written During an Autumn Invasion
Male and Female Mountains
by Miriam Sagan
Pour un jeune Chalamoun qui se vend dans la rue
Translated from the Slovenian by Michael Biggins
Legacy
Saviour
by Don Share
Eternity, A List
The Sunday Drive
by Luis Urrea
Science Lessons
For Martha
by Franz Wright
| Editor | Askold Melnyczuk | ||
| Executive Editor | Sharon Dunn | ||
| Managing Editor | Jennifer Rose | ||
| Editorial Assistants | John Mulrooney | ||
| Sandra McLeod | |||
| Benjamin Kleiber | |||
| Natalie Gerber | |||
| Ethan Forman | |||
| Advisory Board | 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 |