AGNI 45
Contents
Essays
The Happiness Taboo
No Ventriloquism: The Idea of Voice in Book Reviewing
School on a Garbage Pile
Poetry
What the Dead Fear More
The Unhoused Heart
Perhaps By Then You Will No Longer Be In Love
Eclipse
By R. Sam Deese
Bicoastal
By Ben Downing
After Dinner
By Valerie Duff
The bathhouse at the beach
By Kevin Duffy
Sir Nose D’VoidofFunk
Drafts of “Sir Nose D’VoidofFunk”
Beam
Shells
Plague
How Folklore Starts
What the World Does
By Vern Rutsala
Family
The Property of the World
By Jason Sommer
Pilgrimage
Drafts of “Hunger”
Trees and November
Desperate Message
Sister Love
Solo
Visitors
The Black Triangle
Interviews
A Last Interview with Robie Macauley

Fiction by Ha Jin, Igor Yarkevich, Wyn Cooper, and others; poetry by Harvey Shapiro, Ben Downing, Chase Twichell, and others; essays by David Keplinger, George Packer; Robie Macauley interview by Thomas E. Kennedy; drafts of Thomas Sayers Ellis’s “Sir Nose D’VoidofFunk”.