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AGNI 45

Contents
FictionEssaysPoetryConversations

Fiction

Bake at 350°
by Alice Hoffman
ALIVE
by Ha Jin
Lyon
by Josip Novakovich
To Work
by Richard Stern
Two Writers
by Igor Yarkevich
Translated from the Russian by Seth Graham

Essays

The Happiness Taboo
by David Keplinger
No Ventriloquism: The Idea of Voice in Book Reviewing
by Peter LaSalle
School on a Garbage Pile
by George Packer

Poetry

What the Dead Fear More
by Ginger Adcock
Before the House
by Constantine Cavafy
Translated from the Greek by Theoharis C. Theoharis
Chandelier
by Constantine Cavafy
Translated from the Greek by Theoharis C. Theoharis
In the Street
by Constantine Cavafy
Translated from the Greek by Theoharis C. Theoharis
Albania 1941
by Aldo Celli
Translated from the Italian by Carlo Celli and Larissa Szporluk
Monkey, Mirror, Troll, Bush
by Wyn Cooper
Perhaps By Then You Will No Longer Be In Love
by Olena Kalytiak Davis
The Unhoused Heart
by Olena Kalytiak Davis
Eclipse
by R. Sam Deese
Bicoastal
by Ben Downing
After Dinner
by Valerie Duff
Odysseus with a Siren in the Corner of His Eye
by Valerie Duff
The bathhouse at the beach
by Kevin Duffy
Drafts of “Sir Nose D’VoidofFunk”
by Thomas Sayers Ellis
Sir Nose D’VoidofFunk
by Thomas Sayers Ellis
Aunt Peter
by Jody Gladding
Beam
by Jody Gladding
Shells
by Jody Gladding
Plague
by Elise Partridge
How Folklore Starts
by Allan Peterson
What the World Does
by Vern Rutsala
Family
by Harvey Shapiro
The Property of the World
by Jason Sommer
Pilgrimage
by Stephanie Stewart
The Next Time
by Mark Strand
Drafts of “Hunger”
by Sharan Strange
Hunger
by Sharan Strange
Desperate Message
by Mark Svenvold
Trees and November
by Mark Svenvold
Sister Love
by Terese Svoboda
Solo
by Chase Twichell
The Black Triangle
by Chase Twichell
Visitors
by Chase Twichell

Conversations

A Last Interview with Robie Macauley
by Thomas E. Kennedy
A Conversation with Jill McCorkle
by Janice O’Leary
Translated by Jill McCorkle
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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
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