AGNI 38
Contents
Essays
The Things They Still Carry: A Post-Vietnam Story
Poetry
Life Story
by Ai
Rubberneck
Homeless
A Declining Neighborhood
Violence
Small Inns and Lodges
The Park of the Monsters
Of “Turning Away from the World”
Dialogue Before Death (1983)
Translated from the Russian by Marsbed Hablanian and Diana Der-Hovanessian
Holes in Our Speech
by Robert Bly
Geography Lesson
by Jay Boggis
Figure and Ground; or, Art Up to Its Neck in History
A Brief History of Asylum
I Dont Know Who It Is, That Sings, Nor Did I, Would I Tell
The Interrupted Life
In Passing
Starchild
Mixed Signals
by Alan Gilbert
Buffalo Jump, Blue Mounds, Minnesota
by Diane Glancy
Sweet Town
elegy in blue and white
Waunfawr and After / “The Collar Work Begins”
by Lee Harwood
Poet’s Chair
My Mother Also Ate
by Ha Jin
On a Pottery Figure of a Storyteller from the Eastern Han Dynasty (A.D. 25-220)
by Ha Jin
Today I Am Wearing a Suit
The Joke
First Impression
Three Dreams: Masquerade, The Book of Paintings, My Nightmare
Dark Palace
Like a Dog, He Hunts in Dream
Two Self-Portraits: The Artist | The Scholar
by Brian Swann
In Heraclitus’s River
Translated from the Polish by Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanagh
Time Enough
Reviews
Letter Read Inside Out
Two Sane Books Out of the Three
by Liam Rector
Critical Imperialism
The Alternative Continuum
by Joseph Torra
| Editor | Askold Melnyczuk | ||
| Managing Editor | Erin Belieu | ||
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| Audrey Keszek | |||
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| Contributing Editors | Thomas Bahr | ||
| Sven Birkerts | |||
| Lucie Brock-Broido | |||
| John J. Clayton | |||
| William Corbett | |||
| Stuart Dischell | |||
| Marie Howe | |||
| Diana Der-Hovanessian | |||
| Ha Jin | |||
| Fred Marchant | |||
| Gail Mazur | |||
| Dzvinia Orlowsky | |||
| Liam Rector | |||
| Scott Ruescher | |||
| George Scialabba | |||
| Tom Sleigh | |||
| Sue Standing | |||
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