AGNI 42
Contents
Fictions
from The Book of Famous Iowans: Closing Set at the Valencia
In the Camps
from A Crime in the Neighborhood
Instructions to Participant
from A Four-Sided Bed
from The Public Death of Doctor Amin: Chapter II
by M. T. Sharif
from Shirley Wants Her Nickel Back: Consolation
Faith
by Ellen Wilbur
Essays
E-mail from Paris
The On-Line World is Also on Fire: A Reply to Sven Birkerts’s The Gutenberg Elegies
Poetry
A Retiring “Professor of Practicality”
Flesh is Air, Too
Washing Day, Antibes
All I’ve Wanted
by Carl Dennis
Parting
by Moshe Dor
The Gift
by Neil Fischer
Wounded
by Neil Fischer
News from Home
April
Dear Ghost . . .
The Young
by Lisa Lewis
Marcel Duchamp
Crazy 4 U
Everybody Loves the Spring
The Sea Looking On
Real Thing Strange
by David Rivard
He
Face to Face with My Lover on Daito’s Anniversary
by Ikkyu Sojun
Translated from Japanese by Sam Hamill
My Love’s Dark Place is Fragrant like Narcissus
by Ikkyu Sojun
Translated from Japanese by Sam Hamill
Reviews
Luck: A Grammar No One’s Parsed
Cathleen Schine’s The Love Letter
Fred Marchant’s Tipping Point and Gail Mazur’s The Common
Joe Brainard’s Art
Joseph Lease’s The Room
Chang Rea-Lee’s Native Speaker
by Don Lee
Dzivinia Orlowsky’s A Handful of Bees
by Mary Maxwell
Paul Goodman
Bruce Smith’s Mercy Seat and Martin Edmunds’s The High Road to Taos
by Don Share
John Wieners: Through This Suspended Vacuum
by Joseph Torra
Austin Wright’s After Gregory: The Suspect Self
by Chris Walsh
Editor
Askold Melnyczuk
Askold Melnyczuk
Executive Editor
Sharon Dunn
Sharon Dunn
Managing Editor
Erin Belieu
Erin Belieu
Assistant Editor
Richard Curtis
Richard Curtis
Poetry Reviews Editor
Joe Osterhaus
Joe Osterhaus
Poetry Panel Chair
William Corbett
William Corbett
Advisory Board
Leslie Epstein
Robert Pinsky
Derek Walcott
Leslie Epstein, Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott
Editorial Assistants
Eric Berg
Valerie Duff
Margo Grossberg
Erika Fernandez
Matthias Regan
Darby Sanders
Keith Wagner
Eric Berg, Valerie Duff, Margo Grossberg, Erika Fernandez, Matthias Regan, Darby Sanders, Keith Wagner
Design
LI•MA 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
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