AGNI 41

A Story of Many Titles

Near-Death Experiences

The Abbess

The Main Train Station

The Road to Point Reyes

Michael Franco’s Word of Mouth

Peter Balakian and the Poetry of Witness: A Reply

Reading Karahasan

The Risks of Being Suleiman

A Belated Reply to N.

A Love Letter

Letter from N.

Literature and War

Wistful Thinking about the Political Weeklies

The Snow

An Ordinary Day

Forward to Tomorrow without Me

Nothing At All

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”

The Life of the Mind

Stepson Elegy

Best in the Business

Untitled

Running in Church

Being a Constellation

Intersection

The Salmon House

The Worker

To an Old Sucker Fish

Rimbaud

One of the Mineral Elements

Mr. & Mrs. Death

Authority

The Poets

The Scale of Light

Sweet Decision

Sworn Deposition

Trio Threaded on Lines from the Parthian Hymns

Paper Country

Screws

Calle Visión

Advent in Co. Fermanagh

The Denial

Crossing the Border

The Distance Between

Hey Now

Ghost Continent

Listening to Leonard Cohen

Altamont

Hunt

Speaking Franco: An Interview with Michael Franco

Howard Frank Mosher’s Northern Borders

Carl Phillips’s In the Blood and Liam Rector’s American Prodigal

Debra Spark’s Coconuts for the Saint

Sophie Cabot Black’s The Misunderstanding of Nature

Ted Berrigan’s Selected Poems

Robert Pinsky’s Inferno

Jane Kenyon’s Constance

Alan Shapiro’s In Praise of the Impure

David St. John’s Study for the World’s Body