AGNI 43
Contents
Fiction
The Wrong Virginia
by Alice Adams
History Lessons
from Wedding Pictures: Chapter One
Staying Clear
Boy Looking into Infinity
Essays
Joseph Brodsky
Sticks and Stones
To Tease a Shadow: In Memoriam, JB
Essay on Eavesdropping
by Mary Morris
On Conversation with Joseph Brodsky
Open Secrets: An Insider’s Introduction to Allende’s Chile
Poetry
The Call
by Abdi M. Ali
My Great-Grandfather Prefigured the Sixties
by Abdi M. Ali
Nuruddin Farah
by Abdi M. Ali
Cookie Monster
by Abdi M. Ali
The Verdict
Chariot
The Prisoners, the Cave
Drafts of “Did Not Come Back”
A Poetics of Birth
by Teresa Cader
Three Parables
by Teresa Cader
Concrete Mixer
In the Days of
People Who Talk to Themselves
Evening
Leaving Phoenix
by Angie Estes
The Competition
The Mini-Mart
by Donald Hall
Beau Ideal
by Donald Hall
Idyll of the Seronegative
The Arroyo
The Loomfixer
Hopper
by David Lehman
Mademoiselle Dieudonné
by Mary Maxwell
Felix Feneon
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
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