AGNI 46
Contents
Editor's Note
AGNI at Twenty-Five
Fiction
Jason
July
By Beth Chimera
Finem respice
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
The Tooth
Drafts of “The Tooth”
A Poet’s Education
By Rafael Campo
Faith
Siamese
Things no one knows
Hypnogogic Poetry
By Annie Finch
Influencing Factors
How To Kiss with Confidence
Convalescence
By Remy Holzer
When We Spoke Last
By Remy Holzer
Same Time Next Year
By Remy Holzer
poem to be accompanied by galaxie 500
beside still waters
An Honest Heart—A Knowing Head
A Record of Loving Water
*@#&!
Question for the Director of Recycling
By David Rivard
Drafts of “Question for the Director of Recycling”
By David Rivard
Grandpa Paul
Window
Chinese Tortoise in Harvard Yard
In This Shifting Apartment
Odalisque
Boon
Tradership
Action-Packed Sonnet
The Opening
By Drew Swinger
The Clearing
By Meg Tyler
Odalisque
Interviews
Portrait of the Artist as Invisible Man: An Interview with Charles Henry Rowell
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.