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AGNI 43

Contents

FictionEssaysPoetryConversationsReviewsIn Memoriam: Joseph Brodsky

Fiction

The Wrong Virginia
by Alice Adams
History Lessons
by John J. Clayton
from Wedding Pictures: Chapter One
by Alexandra Marshall
Staying Clear
by Stephen Minot
Boy Looking into Infinity
by Joyce Carol Oates

Essays

Sticks and Stones
by Eugene Goodheart
Essay on Eavesdropping
by Mary Morris
Open Secrets: An Insider’s Introduction to Allende’s Chile
by Carolyne Wright

Poetry

The Cave Dances
Translated from the Chol by Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno
The Gopher’s Skull
Translated from the 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
by Daniel Berrigan
The Prisoners, the Cave
by Daniel Berrigan
The Verdict
by Daniel Berrigan
Tomorrow Without Me
by Alain Bosquet
Translated from the French by James Laughlin
Drafts of “Did Not Come Back”
by Lucie Brock-Broido
A Poetics of Birth
by Teresa Cader
Three Parables
by Teresa Cader
Concrete Mixer
by Martha Collins
In the Days of
by Martha Collins
Evening
by Stuart Dischell
People Who Talk to Themselves
by Stuart Dischell
Leaving Phoenix
by Angie Estes
The Competition
by David Gewanter
Telemachus’ Fantasy
by Louise Glück
Beau Ideal
by Donald Hall
The Mini-Mart
by Donald Hall
Idyll of the Seronegative
by Scott Hightower
The Arroyo
by Brenda Hillman
The Loomfixer
by Rebecca Kaiser
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
by Joyce Peseroff
Ice Storm/Cambridge/1972
by Joyce Peseroff
The Odyssey
by Kenneth Rosen
Far Be It from Me
by Stephen Sandy
Cairo Traffic
by Lloyd Schwartz
Drafts of “Marriage”
by Tom Sleigh
Hawk
by C. K. Williams
The Coma
by C. K. Williams
The Hovel
by C. K. Williams

Conversations

A Conversation with Daniel Berrigan
by Mark Wagner
Translated by Daniel Berrigan

Reviews

Jim Crace’s Signals of Distress
by Mark Bates
Dissonant Raptures
by Calvin Bedient
Lynne Sharon Schwartz’s The Fatigue Artist
by Catherine Carter
Sue Standing’s Gravida
by Martha Collins
Son et Lumière
by Alfred Corn
A Jack Keroac ROMnibus CD-ROM
by August de los Reyes
Tom Sleigh’s The Chain
by Susan Mitchell
David Treuer’s Little
by Janice O’Leary
William Corbett’s New & Selected Poems
by Michael Palmer
Sam Hamill’s Destination Zero
by Sarah Randolf
Lucie Brock-Broido’s The Master Letters
by Larissa Szporluk

In Memoriam: Joseph Brodsky

Essays
Joseph Brodsky
by Sven Birkerts
from Uncommon Visage, in On Grief and Reason (reprint)
by Joseph Brodsky
To Tease a Shadow: In Memoriam, JB
by Askold Melnyczuk
On Conversation with Joseph Brodsky
by Katherine A. Powers
Poetry
[…as for your enemy] (reprint)
by Joseph Brodsky
Pacific Rim (reprint)
by Joseph Brodsky
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Editor
Askold Melnyczuk
Managing Editor/Poetry Panel Coordinator
Erin Belieu
Advisory Board
Leslie Epstein, Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott
Poetry Reviews Editor
Joe Osterhaus
Editor Emerita
Sharon Dunn
Editorial Assistants
Valerie Duff, Christopher Dunn, Will Siegel, Lis Sulewski, Drew Swinger
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
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