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AGNI 41

Contents
FictionEssaysPoetryConversationsReviews

Fiction

A Story of Many Titles
by Mitch Berman
Near-Death Experiences
by Donovan Hohn
The Abbess
by Gordon Lish
The Main Train Station
by Victoria Nelson
The Road to Point Reyes
by George Packer

Essays

Michael Franco’s Word of Mouth
by AGNI
Peter Balakian and the Poetry of Witness: A Reply
by Chard DeNiord
Reading Karahasan
by Slavenka Drakulic
The Risks of Being Suleiman
by Lynn Focht
A Belated Reply to N.
by Dzevad Karahasan
A Love Letter
by Dzevad Karahasan
Letter from N.
by Dzevad Karahasan
Literature and War
by Dzevad Karahasan
Wistful Thinking about the Political Weeklies
by George Scialabba

Poetry

For Catherine: Juana, Infanta of Navarre
by Erin Belieu
Summer Again
by Yves Bonnefoy
Translated from the French by Hoyt Rogers
The Snow
by Yves Bonnefoy
Translated from the French by Hoyt Rogers
An Ordinary Day
by Alain Bosquet
Translated from the French by James Laughlin
Forward to Tomorrow without Me
by Alain Bosquet
Translated from the French by James Laughlin
Nothing At All
by Alain Bosquet
Translated from the French by James Laughlin
from Dead Electron Catalogue: “What moves the unseen, untouched body,” “This much I know—that dusk brings arguments over what is,” “You don’t have to go to Venice or the swamp”
by Brian Clements
The Life of the Mind
by Wyn Cooper
Stepson Elegy
by Alfred Corn
Ellipsis, Third or Fourth Dot, Depending
by Stuart Dischell
Best in the Business
by Stephen Dobyns
Untitled
by Bridget Fahrland
Being a Constellation
by Annie Finch
Running in Church
by Annie Finch
Intersection
by Kristin Fogdall
The Salmon House
by Kristin Fogdall
The Worker
by Donald Hall
To an Old Sucker Fish
by Kendra Kopelke
One of the Mineral Elements
by Lynne McMahon
Rimbaud
by Lynne McMahon
Authority
by Steve Orlen
Mr. & Mrs. Death
by Steve Orlen
The Poets
by Steve Orlen
Sweet Decision
by Joe Osterhaus
The Scale of Light
by Joe Osterhaus
The Rule of Three
by Ron Padgett
Sworn Deposition
by Eric Pankey
Trio Threaded on Lines from the Parthian Hymns
by John Peck
Paper Country
by Joe Pernice
Screws
by Joe Pernice
Calle Visión
by Adrienne Rich
Take
by Adrienne Rich
Advent in Co. Fermanagh
by Robin Robertson
Crossing the Border
by Tom Sleigh
The Denial
by Tom Sleigh
The Distance Between
by Tom Sleigh
Hey Now
by Thomas Swiss
Ghost Continent
by Larissa Szporluk
Altamont
by Alan Williamson
Listening to Leonard Cohen
by Alan Williamson
Hunt
by Mark Wunderlich

Conversations

Speaking Franco: An Interview with Michael Franco
by João de Mancelos
Translated by Michael Franco

Reviews

Howard Frank Mosher’s Northern Borders
by Thomas Bahr
Carl Phillips’s In the Blood and Liam Rector’s American Prodigal
by Erin Belieu
Debra Spark’s Coconuts for the Saint
by Catherine Carter
Sophie Cabot Black’s The Misunderstanding of Nature
by Wyn Cooper
Ted Berrigan’s Selected Poems
by William Corbett
Robert Pinsky’s Inferno
by Alfred Corn
Jane Kenyon’s Constance
by Marie Howe
Alan Shapiro’s In Praise of the Impure
by Joe Osterhaus
David St. John’s Study for the World’s Body
by Katrina Roberts
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Editor
Askold Melnyczuk
Executive Editor
Sharon Dunn
Managing Editor
Erin Belieu
Assistant Editor
Richard Curtis
Poetry Reviews Editor
Joe Osterhaus
Poetry Panel Chair
William Corbett
Advisory Board
Leslie Epstein, Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott
Editorial Assistants
Erin Berg, Valerie Duff, Margo Grossberg, Erika Fernandez, Matthias Regan, Darby Sanders, Keith Wagner
Design
LI•MA Design
Contributing Editors
Thomas Bahr, Sven Birkerts, Lucie Brock-Broido, John J. Clayton, William 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, Oksana Zabuzhko
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