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
Perhaps By Then You Will No Longer Be In Love
The Unhoused Heart
Eclipse
by R. Sam Deese
Bicoastal
by Ben Downing
After Dinner
by Valerie Duff
The bathhouse at the beach
by Kevin Duffy
Drafts of “Sir Nose D’VoidofFunk”
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
Visitors
Solo
The Black Triangle
Conversations
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.”
| Editor | Askold Melnyczuk | ||
| Managing Editor | Valerie Duff | ||
| Advisory Board | Leslie Epstein | ||
| Robert Pinsky | |||
| Derek Walcott | |||
| Poetry Reviews Editor | Joe Osterhaus | ||
| Art Director | Gerry Bergstein | ||
| Editor Emerita | Sharon Dunn | ||
| Editorial Assistants | Amanda Bristow | ||
| Rebecca Fiala | |||
| Jeff Galbraith | |||
| Carol Hartman | |||
| Gac Kim | |||
| Doris Pai | |||
| Scott Whitaker | |||
| Contributing Editors | Thomas Bahr | ||
| Erin Belieu | |||
| Sven Birkerts | |||
| Lucie Brock-Broido | |||
| John J. Clayton | |||
| William Corbett | |||
| Stuart Dischell | |||
| Thomas Sayers Ellis | |||
| Marie Howe | |||
| Diana Der-Hovanessian | |||
| Ha Jin | |||
| Alex Johnson | |||
| Susan 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 | |||
| Oksana Zabuzhko | |||
| Rosanna Warren |