AGNI 40
Contents
Editor's Note
Send No Money Now
Poetry
Inamorata
The Regulations
The Weight of Things
Carolyn Forché and the Poetry of Witness: Another View
Flowing or Being
Translated from the Spanish by Robert Mezey and Richard Barnes
Dear Mom
by Daniel Bosch
In Autumn
by Ellen Davis
Solace
by Ellen Davis
Make Costly Your Tears
by Tory Dent
Agvas in Aden
by Ellen Dudley
MOVING & ST RAGE
by Kathy Fagan
for Michael and Norma SF ’93
TOO BIG CANADER: A Travelogue
Notes on “Layover”
by Robert Hass
Renunciation
I Fabricate Memories of High School in the Fifties
by Bob Kaven
The Gesture
by Sharon Kraus
Blue Skies
Sublunar
To Miss the Mark
Making Things Worse
Poemissimo
Cortegé
Focusing
My Skull
by Ray Ronci
Aubade
by Mark Turpin
Last Hired
by Mark Turpin
Shithouse
by Mark Turpin
Behaviorists
In the War Zone
Reviews
The Clarity of Pain Without Despair; Stuart Dischell’s Good Hope Road
by Joseph Lease
Trilce
by Mark Wagner
Unsettling Narratives: Problems in Memoir and Biography
Essays
from Highways and Dancehalls
After the Fact: Discoveries in the Writing of a Biographical Novel
Biography and the Dissolving Self: A Note
A Confession
Falling
by Art Homer
A Long Way in the Dark
How Eye Became I
by Alex Johnson
The Crimson Snake
by Honor Moore
In Search of André Breton
Foreign States of Mind
by Linda Simon
Poetry
9 Ridge Road, from Remembering William Carlos Williams
Editor
Askold Melnyczuk
Askold Melnyczuk
Executive Editor
Sharon Dunn
Sharon Dunn
Managing Editor
Erin Belieu
Erin Belieu
Assistant Editor
Richard Curtis
Richard Curtis
Editorial Assistants
John Mulligan
Erika Fernandez
Brian Steel
Maia Randhava
Keith Wagner
John Mulligan, Erika Fernandez, Brian Steel, Maia Randhava, Keith Wagner
Advisory Board
Leslie Epstein
Robert Pinsky
Derek Walcott
Leslie Epstein, Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott
Poetry Panel Chair
William Corbett
William Corbett
Design
LI•MA Design
LI•MA Design
Contributing Editors
Thomas Bahr
Sven Birkerts
Lucie Brock-Broido
John J. Clayton
Willliam Corbett
Stuart Dischell
Sharon Dunn
Thomas Sayers Ellis
Marie Howe
Diana Der-Hovanessian
Ha Jin
Alex Johnson
Susan Johnson
Fred Marchant
Fiona McCrae
Gail Mazur
Joe Osterhaus
Dzvinia Orlowsky
George Packer
Solomea Pavlychko
Liam Rector
Scott Ruescher
George Scialabba
Tom Sleigh
Sue Standing
Tree Swenson
Rosanna Warren
Thomas Bahr, Sven Birkerts, Lucie Brock-Broido, John J. Clayton, Willliam Corbett, Stuart Dischell, Sharon Dunn, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Marie Howe, Diana Der-Hovanessian, Ha Jin, Alex Johnson, Susan Johnson, Fred Marchant, Fiona McCrae, Gail Mazur, Joe Osterhaus, Dzvinia Orlowsky, George Packer, Solomea Pavlychko, Liam Rector, Scott Ruescher, George Scialabba, Tom Sleigh, Sue Standing, Tree Swenson, Rosanna Warren