AGNI 37
Contents
Fiction
Occupational Marks and Other Signs
Senior Transfer
by John Domini
The Wall and the Stream
by Edwin Honig
Claude Comes and Goes
The Sugar Tooth
Essays
Windows, Open Homes, A Sense of Community
Start from Where You Are
by Joseph Lease
On the Verge: Emerging Massachusetts Artists
James Laughlin, Poet
Messages of Black Birds
Poetry
Gatherings
Hunt in Couples
four rounds from Narrative: Ali: 6, 8, 10, 11
Girl Cadaver
Timid Family
Called Up: Tinker to Evers to Chance
Vermont House
by Ed Barrett
Grandfather
from Five Verse Memoirs: 4. Chopcock
Among the Divided Lilies
Your Mouth Near My House
Five Verses
by James Bland
The Way He Breaks
Something Faithful
A Modern History of California
by David Citino
More
One Rose
by Thomas Cooke
If You Love Something, Let It Go
A Costume Straitjacket’s Black Sleeve in Armoire Shadows
Commencement Ode
The Police
Listen
by Tory Dent
Poem for a Poem
by Tory Dent
The Genius
Smoker
Awake
by Paja Faudree
Lefty
by Paja Faudree
Traveling in America
Portrait
by Edwin Frank
Uncle
Silver Queen
Blue Willow
Indian Paint
In Visible Light
Fang
The Sports Complex
And Other Fantasy Lovers
by Jill Gonet
Eighth Grade Acrostic
Testimony of the Female Serial Killer
Roseate Tern
Gray Bat
The Old Man, Bereaved, Paces Upstairs in a Jumble of Rooms
by Colette Inez
Kaleidoscope
Steps
Flight of the Blind Bird
Good Humor
The Inner Life
Seventh Heaven Can Be Seen at First Glance
Translated from the Bulgarian by Lisa Sapinkopf and Georgi Belev
from A Psalter: psalms 4, 7, 8
by Suzanne Keen
The Sea
Like Sabines
Geology, Summer 1983
My Students
by Lisa Lewis
To Hear the Chorus Sing
by Peter Marcus
The Insomniac’s Pet Shop
by Peter Marcus
Mother’s Third Husband
The Alzheimer’s Monkeys
On Hearing About the Disappearance of Frogs
The Cinder
Collards
Poem Written in the Logic of Late Capitalism
House
by Laura Mullen
from Muse and Drudge: 1-6
The Castle
by Laura Mullen
Ode
by Gale Nelson
Anna Anna
A Mathematics of Breathing
Becoming Miss Holiday
Sounding Fields
Death to Santa Foy
Easy to say, Easy to say,
by Len Roberts
Dead Pet Poem
Excitement, The Need For
Nijinsky’s Winter Afternoon, With Faun
Mercy
by Bruce Smith
Scenes From a Puppet Play
by Bruce Smith
Hostile Witness
by Bruce Smith
The Way We Love
Between Patients
How To Teach Them
Snow
Ideogram
Good-bye
First Prairie Winter
Death of a Distant In-law
Drapery Factory, Gulfport, Mississippi 1956
Naola Beauty Academy, New Orleans, Louisiana 1943
Reading Plato
by Gale Warner
Clyde Peeling’s Reptiland in Allenwood, Pennsylvania
by Kevin Young
Art Feature
Vanity With Seat
by Elaine Corda
9/12/91
“BookBridge,” detail from “Eggroom”
Approaching Storm
by Jane Ehrlich
Untitled
by Lyn Feakes
Untitled
River, River Passage
Place of Things Beginning
Pansy—Possum’s Feet
Could
by Keith Walsh
Lolita’s Daymare
by Susan White
Conversations
An Interview with James Schuyler
by Carl Little
Reviews
Glyn Maxwell’s Out of the Rain
“Stand on the verge” with us and dive into AGNI 37. In the words of Teresa Iverson, “the imagination is an airy element,” and the short, buoyant poems of this issue keep it afloat as our reader swims from one experience to the next. This issue offers “Standing on the Verge,” a refreshing series of work by emerging poets and Massachusetts artists including Claudia Rankine, Kevin Young, and Elizabeth Alexander. AGNI 37 features Carl Little’s interview with James Schuyler, Edwin Honig’s haunting prose, as well as work by Carl Phillips, Victoria Nelson, Albert Goldbarth, Ha Jin, Natasha Tretheway, Bruce Smith, Paja Faudree, Gale Nelson, and many more.
| Editor | Askold Melnyczuk | ||
| Managing Editor | Jennifer Rose | ||
| Intern | T. Patrick Rewalt | ||
| Editorial Assistants | Nick Owchar | ||
| Jhumpa Lahiri | |||
| Natalie Gerber | |||
| Lissa Franz | |||
| Ellen Davis | |||
| Tim Burton | |||
| Advisory Board | Derek Walcott | ||
| Robert Pinsky | |||
| Leslie Epstein | |||
| Designer | Elizabeth Knox | ||
| Executive Editor | Sharon Dunn | ||
| 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 | |||
| Stuart Dischell | |||
| William Corbett | |||
| John J. Clayton | |||
| Lucie Brock-Broido | |||
| Sven Birkerts | |||
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