AGNI 43
Contents
Fictions
The Wrong Virginia
by Alice Adams
History Lessons
from Wedding Pictures: Chapter One
Staying Clear
Boy Looking into Infinity
Essays
Sticks and Stones
Essay on Eavesdropping
by Mary Morris
Open Secrets: An Insider’s Introduction to Allende’s Chile
Poetry
The Cave Dances
Translated from Chol by Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno
The Gopher’s Skull
Translated from Chol by Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno
Cookie Monster
by Abdi M. Ali
My Great-Grandfather Prefigured the Sixties
by Abdi M. Ali
Nuruddin Farah
by Abdi M. Ali
The Call
by Abdi M. Ali
Chariot
The Prisoners, the Cave
The Verdict
Drafts of “Did Not Come Back”
A Poetics of Birth
by Teresa Cader
Three Parables
by Teresa Cader
Concrete Mixer
In the Days of
Evening
People Who Talk to Themselves
Leaving Phoenix
by Angie Estes
The Competition
Beau Ideal
by Donald Hall
The Mini-Mart
by Donald Hall
Idyll of the Seronegative
The Arroyo
The Loomfixer
Hopper
by David Lehman
Felix Feneon
by Mary Maxwell
Mademoiselle Dieudonné
by Mary Maxwell
Five poems: Questions, Questions, Questions, Questions, Questions,
by Gail Mazur
A Summer Party
Ice Storm/Cambridge/1972
The Odyssey
Far Be It from Me
Cairo Traffic
Drafts of “Marriage”
by Tom Sleigh
Hawk
The Coma
Conversations
Reviews
Jim Crace’s Signals of Distress
by Mark Bates
Dissonant Raptures
Lynne Sharon Schwartz’s The Fatigue Artist
Sue Standing’s Gravida
Son et Lumière
by Alfred Corn
A Jack Keroac ROMnibus CD-ROM
Tom Sleigh’s The Chain
David Treuer’s Little
William Corbett’s New & Selected Poems
Sam Hamill’s Destination Zero
Lucie Brock-Broido’s The Master Letters
In Memoriam: Joseph Brodsky
Essays
Joseph Brodsky
from Uncommon Visage, in On Grief and Reason (reprint)
On Conversation with Joseph Brodsky
Editor
Askold Melnyczuk
Askold Melnyczuk
Managing Editor/Poetry Panel Coordinator
Erin Belieu
Erin Belieu
Advisory Board
Leslie Epstein
Robert Pinsky
Derek Walcott
Leslie Epstein, Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott
Poetry Reviews Editor
Joe Osterhaus
Joe Osterhaus
Editor Emerita
Sharon Dunn
Sharon Dunn
Editorial Assistants
Valerie Duff
Christopher Dunn
Will Siegel
Lis Sulewski
Drew Swinger
Valerie Duff, Christopher Dunn, Will Siegel, Lis Sulewski, Drew Swinger
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
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, 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