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 Love Letter

Letter from N.

Literature and War

A Belated Reply to N.

Wistful Thinking about the Political Weeklies

The Snow

An Ordinary Day

Nothing At All

Forward to Tomorrow without Me

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

Being a Constellation

Running in Church

Intersection

The Salmon House

The Worker

To an Old Sucker Fish

One of the Mineral Elements

Rimbaud

Authority

Mr. & Mrs. Death

The Poets

Sweet Decision

The Scale of Light

Sworn Deposition

Trio Threaded on Lines from the Parthian Hymns

Screws

Paper Country

Calle Visión

Advent in Co. Fermanagh

Crossing the Border

The Denial

The Distance Between

Hey Now

Ghost Continent

Altamont

Listening to Leonard Cohen

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