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AGNI 36

Contents

FictionsEssaysPoetryReviewsThom Gunn Feature

Fictions

Rhode Island Fish
by Maria Flook
The Match
by William Holinger
Dragon Head
by Ha Jin
Black Book
by Peter LaSalle
Elina Is Happy
by Andra Neiburga
Translated from Latvian by Banuta Rubess

Essays

Women of the Maquiladoras
by Miriam Davidson
Frank Bidart: A Salute
by Seamus Heaney
The Strange History of the American Fanatic
by Victoria Nelson
“What Was Lost”: Dissident Artists after Soviet Communism
by Nick Owchar

Poetry

Self-Defense
by Ai
Mother Hunger and Her Seatbelt
by Dorothy Barresi
Odeon
by Ed Barrett
Heraclitus
by Jorge Luis Borges
Translated from Spanish by Thomas Frick
June 1968
by Jorge Luis Borges
Translated from Spanish by Thomas Frick
There Is the Body Lying in State
by Joshua Clover
Inferno * Purgatorio * Paradiso
by Andrea V. Collins
Letter to the American Poet Gregory Corso
by Sándor Csoóri
Translated from Hungarian by Len Roberts and László Vértes
A Walk Around the Lake
by William Virgil Davis
The Scar
by William Virgil Davis
Radical Forgetting
by Page Dougherty Delano
Blueberry Pie
by Ken Denberg
Buddies
by Stuart Dischell
A Baptist Beat
by Thomas Sayers Ellis
An Apology
by Faiz Ahmed Faiz
Translated from Urdu by Andrew McCord
Turning Toward an Old Form: Two Poems for Katharine Killion Who Asked If I Weren’t Nostalgic
by Michael Franco
from Memory: II
by Marin Georgiev
Translated from Bulgarian by Lisa Sapinkopf and Georgi Belev
Leopard Man
by David Gewanter
What I See I Am
by Gabrielle Glancy
Dedikation #5
by Egito Gonçalves
Translated from Portuguese by Alexis Levitin
The Uncovered Dish
by Libba Moore Gray
The Ninth Inning
by Donald Hall
Courage
by Eric Horsting
Credo
by Eric Horsting
A Scene
by Ani Ilkov
Translated from Bulgarian by Lisa Sapinkopf and Georgi Belev
Heart
by Mark Irwin
At the End of the Twentieth Century The Barbary Rim
by Helena Kaminski
Dust
by Dorianne Laux
Petition
by Joseph Lease
Last Night
by Dan Lechay
For the Dead
by Ruth Lepson
Lincoln in Richmond
by Andrew McCord
Beatles
by Attila Mohylyny
Translated from Ukrainian by Virlana Tkacz and Wanda Phipps
Secrets
by Laura Mullen
Working Wrong
by Liam Rector
Stilling
by Donald Revell
The Secessions on Loan
by Donald Revell
The Testimonies of Ramon Fernandez
by Vijay Seshadri
Against the Maker
by Bruce Smith
Annie Pearl Smith Discovers Moonlight
by Patricia Smith
Nickel Wine and Deep Kisses
by Patricia Smith
Self-Portrait as Foreign Policy
by Bruce Smith
Skinhead
by Patricia Smith
Grandmother’s Clothes
by Sharan Strange
Jimmy’s First Cigarette
by Sharan Strange
Démon de la Trompette
by Patrick Sylvain
Gerald
by Patrick Sylvain
The Lesson
by Patricia Traxler
The Promise
by Patricia Traxler
A Fine Cold
by Mark Wagner
The Horn of Hard Water
by Mark Wagner
A Definition of Poetry
by Oksana Zabuzhko
Translated from Ukrainian by Michael M. Naydan

Reviews

“Also This, Also That”: Robert Pinsky’s Poetics of Inclusion
by Peter Sacks

Thom Gunn Feature

Essays
A Note on Thom Gunn’s “Lament”
by David Gewanter
Gunn’s “Meat”: Notations on Craft
by Joshua Weiner
Poetry
Two Versions of “Meat”
by Thom Gunn
Conversations
An Interview with Thom Gunn
by David Gewanter and Thom Gunn
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Celebrate our twentieth anniversary year with AGNI 36, an issue that tugs between the fantastical and the everyday. You will find here writing that is grounded in bodily and cosmic speculation, that challenges inhumane working conditions, that pulls at family ties and pushes our understanding of being human. In addition to our feature on Thom Gunn, which includes an unpublished draft of his poem “Meat” and Joshua Weiner’s close reading, we offer a second feature, “Writing from India,” which includes Mridula Garg’s essay on bilingualism and Indian writers’ work in translation. AGNI 36 also presents essays, fiction, and poetry by Seamus Heaney, Victoria Nelson, Peter Sacks, Ha Jin, Peter LaSalle, Dorianne Laux, Patricia Smith, Vijay Seshadri, Liam Rector, Laura Mullen, Jorge Luis Borges, and Donald Hall.

Editor
Askold Melnyczuk
Executive Editor
Sharon Dunn
Managing Editor
Jennifer Rose
Editorial Assistants
Nick Owchar, Jhumpa Lahiri, Natalie Gerber, Lissa Franz, Cynthia Dyer, Ellen Davis, Tim Burton
Advisory Board
Derek Walcott, Robert Pinsky, Leslie Epstein
Contributing Editors
Rosanna Warren, Sue Standing, Tom Sleigh, George Scialabba, Scott Ruescher, Liam Rector, Dzvinia Orlowsky, Gail Mazur, Fred Marchant, Ha Jin, Diana Der-Hovanessian, Marie Howe, Martín Espada, Stuart Dischell, William Corbett, John J. Clayton, Sven Birkerts, Thomas Bahr
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