AGNI 41
Contents
Fiction
A Story of Many Titles
By Mitch Berman
Near-Death Experiences
By Donovan Hohn
The Abbess
By Gordon Lish
The Main Train Station
The Road to Point Reyes
Essays
Michael Franco’s Word of Mouth
By AGNI
Peter Balakian and the Poetry of Witness: A Reply
Reading Karahasan
The Risks of Being Suleiman
By Lynn Focht
A Belated Reply to N.
A Love Letter
Letter from N.
Literature and War
Wistful Thinking about the Political Weeklies
Poetry
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
By Wyn Cooper
Stepson Elegy
By Alfred Corn
Best in the Business
Untitled
Running in Church
By Annie Finch
Being a Constellation
By Annie Finch
Intersection
The Salmon House
The Worker
By Donald Hall
To an Old Sucker Fish
Rimbaud
One of the Mineral Elements
Mr. & Mrs. Death
By Steve Orlen
Authority
By Steve Orlen
The Poets
By Steve Orlen
The Scale of Light
Sweet Decision
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
Advent in Co. Fermanagh
The Denial
By Tom Sleigh
Crossing the Border
By Tom Sleigh
The Distance Between
By Tom Sleigh
Hey Now
By Thomas Swiss
Ghost Continent
Listening to Leonard Cohen
Altamont
Hunt
Interviews
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
Sophie Cabot Black’s The Misunderstanding of Nature
By Wyn Cooper
Ted Berrigan’s Selected Poems
Robert Pinsky’s Inferno
By Alfred Corn
Jane Kenyon’s Constance
By Marie Howe
Alan Shapiro’s In Praise of the Impure
David St. John’s Study for the World’s Body
