AGNI 46
Contents
Editor's Note
Fictions
Finem respice
Poetry
Drafts of “The Tooth”
The Tooth
A Poet’s Education
by Rafael Campo
An Honest Heart—A Knowing Head
Drafts of “Question for the Director of Recycling”
by David Rivard
Question for the Director of Recycling
by David Rivard
Grandpa Paul
Window
The Opening
by Drew Swinger
Conversations
Portrait of the Artist as Invisible Man: An Interview with Charles Henry Rowell
Reviews
Hypnogogic Poetry
by Annie Finch
From Baghdad to Bohemia
Gary Snyder’s Mountains and Rivers Without End
by John Lane
Jeredith Merrin’s Shift
by Mary Maxwell
The Humanist’s Muse
by Drew Swinger
Two Seconds
by George Weld
First Publications
Fictions
Jason
July
by Beth Chimera
Ese
by Gac Kim
The Difference between Us
Saltimbocca
from On Being an A-merican
by Nhi Nguyen
Loving Mr. H
What Is An Omniscient Narrator?
Belvedere
The Whole Sky Is Mine
Incapable of Love
by Humair Yusuf
Poetry
Faith
Siamese
Things no one knows
How To Kiss with Confidence
Influencing Factors
Convalescence
by Remy Holzer
Same Time Next Year
by Remy Holzer
When We Spoke Last
by Remy Holzer
beside still waters
poem to be accompanied by galaxie 500
A Record of Loving Water
*@#&!
Chinese Tortoise in Harvard Yard
Action-Packed Sonnet
Boon
In This Shifting Apartment
Performance
Tradership
The Clearing
by Meg Tyler
Odalisque
Our Twenty-fifth Anniversary issue, dedicated to first publications by new authors. Mary Sullivan, Tiffany Meyers, Derek Webster, Humair Yusuf, Traci Sobocinski (winner of the 2001 PEN New England Discovery Award), Meg Tyler, et al. Plus poetry by James Laughlin and Rafael Campo, a conversation between Sven Birkerts and Saul Bellow, and fiction by Percival Everett.
Editor
Askold Melnyczuk
Askold Melnyczuk
Managing Editor
Valerie Duff
Valerie Duff
Advisory Board
Leslie Epstein
Robert Pinsky
Derek Walcott
Leslie Epstein, Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott
Poetry Reviews Editor
Joe Osterhaus
Joe Osterhaus
Art Director
Gerry Bergstein
Gerry Bergstein
Editor Emerita
Sharon Dunn
Sharon Dunn
Editorial Assistants
Carol Hartman
Elizabeth Katz
Tiffany Meyers
Nicky Schildkraut
Christian Zwhalen
Carol Hartman, Elizabeth Katz, Tiffany Meyers, Nicky Schildkraut, Christian Zwhalen
Contributing Editors
Thomas Bahr
Erin Belieu
Sven Birkerts
Lucie Brock-Broido
John J. Clayton
William Corbett
Stuart Dischell
Sharon Dunn
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
Rosanna Warren
Oksana Zabuzhko
Thomas Bahr, Erin Belieu, Sven Birkerts, Lucie Brock-Broido, John J. Clayton, William Corbett, Stuart Dischell, Sharon Dunn, 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, Rosanna Warren, Oksana Zabuzhko