AGNI 44
Contents
Fiction
Safe
from A Book of Measure: Fifth Circumference
from Carolina Moon
Essays
Strong Stories
Translating Viet Nam
Shorts for Simic
Living on Top
Poetry, History and the Love of Oranges
On Rereading The Magic Mountain
Epic Temptations
Mandelstam’s Web
A Descriptive Analysis of Bank Notes
By Wulf Rehder
Poetry
Pine Tree in Spring
Flying
Man on an Island
By Nuar Alsadir
Absinthe
By Nuar Alsadir
Breakfast
By Nuar Alsadir
Donne’s the One
By Linda Bamber
Grief
The Book of the Dead Man
By Marvin Bell
On the Rooftop Students
By David Blair
A Week of Poems at Bennington
By Robert Bly
The Phoenix
By Bruce Bond
from At the Edge of Being: 6, 9, 10
By Teresa Cader
I, I, I
Balloons Drinks at the Frontier Tavern
Two Freeze to Death Despite Experience
Field Analyzer
The Week in Advance
Last Date
Improving the Golden Rule
Drafts of “The Two”
Agnes
By Terri Ford
Twelfth Floor West
Street Scenes: Sunday Evening
Pages
The Midnight Hydroplane Race
By Henry Hart
Matter and Spirit
Beauty
Just Spring
The Wide World
By Steve Kronen
Description of Emily Dickinson
from Byways: III. The Wrong Bed—Moira
Nyctalopia
By Jack Martin
Dear Edward Lear I Love Your Birds
The Bullfrogs
The Thin Rain
O Crayola!
Wieliczka Salt Mine, Southern Poland
Jeffrey on a Leash
From the Devotions
Calypso, Penelope
By Alan Shapiro
All Souls’ Day
By Maurya Simon
Palimpsest
By Sue Standing
True Story
The River
Translated from the Vietnamese by Martha Collins and Nguyen Quang Thieu
Lily
Drafts of “Noon”
Art Pepper
A Photograph I Saw of a Father and Son
Colophon
By Dean Young
Reviews
In Lucrezia Borgia’s Chair
Diana Der-Hovanessian’s Selected Poems
By Ellen Davis
Carl Phillips’s Cortège and Alan Shapiro’s Mixed Company
By Kathy Fagan
The Century as Experiment: Reading Poems for the Millenium
Inclusions
By Thom Gunn
“Here I Am, Lord”
Two Reviews
Poetry by Chinua Achebe, Joyce Carol Oates, Teresa Cader, Jane Hirshfield, Oksana Zabuzhko, Marilyn Hacker, Dzvinia Orlowsky, Claire Malroux, and Tony Hoagland; fiction by Jill McCorkle, Peter Ho Davies; Susanna Kaysen on rereading The Magic Mountain, Martha Collins on translating Viet Nam, and Seamus Heaney on Charles Simic.