AGNI 47
Contents
Essays
Catherine in Glass, from Swimming at the Joyce Museum
by Annie Callan
Angela the Upside-Down Girl
Pieces of Bones
The Thingun
by Wulf Rehder
“Building the House of Dying”: Donald Hall’s Claim for Poetry
by Chris Walsh
Poetry
She Runs With Her Skirts Up
Drafts of “Last Rites”
by Rafael Campo
Conveyance
Drafts of “In Defense of Marriage”
In Defense of Marriage
Descent
A Mass Hallucination of Motels
The Door
Night Fishing
by Ellen Dudley
Code of Silence
by Gary Duehr
Harbinger
by Gary Duehr
Bleeding Heart
by Paul Jenkins
Diana’s Lamp
Oracular Moment
Rows of Buddhas, Receding
Last Night
by Gail Mazur
What About
Wet Book
by Ange Mlinko
from Variations from the Red Room: 1-4
How Fast
Question for the Magic Hour
by David Rivard
Versace
by David Rivard
The New World: Edward Taylor
The History of His Body
Barber College Haircut
Beauty Parlor
House of Horrors
The Soul Has May Brides
Dream of the Glass of Wine
House-Warming
Harness
Pathogen
Sight
The Emigrant
Friendly Fire
by Meg Tyler
The Encounter
by Meg Tyler
The Fault in the Rock
by Meg Tyler
Small Fry
More Than Anything I Like to Sing but It’s Rare
Riddle Book to the City
Astrelegy
Reviews
Real Right Things?
by Charles Bock
Plumbing the Underworld
Tome for the “Bett’ring of the Time”
by Brett Foster
Twisting into Grace
In Memory of Ed Hogan
Editor's Note
Poetry
Requiem
One of the first publications of Jhumpa Lahiri: the title story to Interpreter of Maladies. The story was selected for Best American; the collection won the Pulitzer Prize (2000). Fiction also by Nick Papandreou, Pamela Painter, and Charles Bock. Poetry by Charles Simic, Larissa Szporluk, Gail Mazur, Jennifer Barber, Reginald Shepherd, Fred Marchant, Martha Collins, and more. Essays by Julia Lieblich, Wulf Rehder, and Emily Hiestand. Memoriam to Ed Hogan.
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
Art Editor
Gerry Bergstein
Gerry Bergstein
Editor Emerita
Sharon Dunn
Sharon Dunn
Editorial Assistants
Jean Charbonneau
Eric Grunwald
Aviya Kushner
Jill McDonough
Eliot Wilder
Jean Charbonneau, Eric Grunwald, Aviya Kushner, Jill McDonough, Eliot Wilder
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