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
In Defense of Marriage
Drafts of “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
Versace
by David Rivard
Question for the Magic Hour
by David Rivard
The New World: Edward Taylor
The History of His Body
The Soul Has May Brides
Barber College Haircut
Beauty Parlor
House of Horrors
House-Warming
Dream of the Glass of Wine
Harness
Pathogen
Sight
The Emigrant
Friendly Fire
by Meg Tyler
The Fault in the Rock
by Meg Tyler
The Encounter
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 | ||
| Managing Editor | Valerie Duff | ||
| Advisory Board | Leslie Epstein | ||
| Robert Pinsky | |||
| Derek Walcott | |||
| Art Editor | Gerry Bergstein | ||
| Editor Emerita | Sharon Dunn | ||
| Editorial Assistants | 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 |