AGNI 39
Contents
Fiction
“That’s Why I Love Her So & Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, I Want the World to Know” or Why Jackie Wilson Died in Silence
The Second World
by Debra Spark
The Eternity Bird
Essays
How to Speak with the Dead? A Poet’s Notebook
Translated from the Spanish by Monica Bruno
from Philip Guston
The High Place of American Poetry: The Problem With Witness
from Borderlands: 27-39
A Catfish for Your Thoughts: Ukrainian Literature at the Turning Point
Water
The Sealed Envelope
Poetry
Gabriela’s Elqui
Nights Mutable as Water Revise Themselves Into the Shape of Our Extravagant Past
Manners
Philips Street, Andover
His Apprentice
You Can’t Always Get What You Want
Everybody Has a Heart, Except Some People
Spirit Papers
by Teresa Cader
Blue Ridge Blue
by David Daniel
From a Letter I Did Not Receive
Paradiso
The Fire
Sticks
Debris
Guyton Place
It’s Top Forty in My Head
by Lisa Gade
Sentence
Boat-Builder
by Peter Gurnis
The Lover
by Peter Gurnis
Hectic
Glory
Anaphora
Dear Editor Kirby, Even in This Facility
Little Death
Rushing the Gates of Empirical Gardens
My Father Receives the First Visitation
The Upsidedown Waterfall
by Ann Kim
The Hanoi Market
Trueblood’s Blues
It’s Difficult
Melissa (from Byways)
Apokatastasis
At a Certain Point
Boraxo
A Handful of Bees
fromRose Window (or Prosettes)
by Wanda Phipps
Alzheimer’s
by David Ray
After the News
Apollo to the Athletes
The Story of Crucifixion
I Don’t Want a Son
Whisper of Agony
Translated from the French by William Louis-Dreyfus and Molly Peacock
Mrs. Biswas Breaks Her Connection With Another Relative
Norwegian Spruce
by Joyce Wilson
Conversations
An Interview With Leslie Epstein
by Leslie Epstein and Mark Brownlow
Reviews
The Thinnest, Whitest Blonde of All
Articulate Survival as Generosity in Four Books of Poems
Mr. Cogito’s Tragic Grandeur
by Susan Miron
Utopian Turtletop: Lynne McMahon’s Devolution of the Nude
The Degenerate Frontier
| Editor | Askold Melnyczuk | ||
| Executive Editor | Sharon Dunn | ||
| Managing Editor | Erin Belieu | ||
| Advisory Board | Leslie Epstein | ||
| Robert Pinsky | |||
| Derek Walcott | |||
| Poetry Panel | William Corbett, Chairperson | ||
| Erin Belieu | |||
| Askold Melnyczuk | |||
| Robert Pinsky | |||
| Tom Sleigh | |||
| Sue Standing | |||
| Editorial Assistants | Richard Curtis | ||
| Erika Fernandez | |||
| John Mulligan | |||
| Maia Randhava | |||
| Brian Steel | |||
| Contributing Editors | Thomas Bahr | ||
| Sven Birkerts | |||
| Lucie Brock-Broido | |||
| John J. Clayton | |||
| William Corbett | |||
| Stuart Dischell | |||
| Thomas Sayers Ellis | |||
| Marie Howe | |||
| Diana Der-Hovanessian | |||
| Ha Jin | |||
| Susan Johnson | |||
| Fred Marchant | |||
| Gail Mazur | |||
| Fiona McCrae | |||
| Dzvinia Orlowsky | |||
| Liam Rector | |||
| Scott Ruescher | |||
| George Scialabba | |||
| Tom Sleigh | |||
| Sue Standing | |||
| Tree Swenson | |||
| Rosanna Warren |