AGNI 49
Contents
Editor’s Note
Shadowboxing: Saved by Shame: Milosz’s Concupiscent Curds
Essays
Introduction to the Art Feature: Elaine Spatz-Rabinowitz
AGNI in the Music Business
What is Music? What is Poetry?
by Kelly Cherry
David Mamet and Poetic Language in Drama
First Love: A Memoir
by DeWitt Henry
One Person in Three Substances, or Three Substances in One Person?
by Tom Sleigh
The Transfiguration of Pinsky
by Tony Whedon
Poetry
A Little Song About Negative Capability
by Cort Day
A Little Song About Plastic
by Cort Day
Elect Bastard Toadflax
by Cort Day
It’s Hard to Be the Child
Safe House
To Reinvent the World
A Morning Letter
If the Earth Quakes
Drafts of “The Ice Storm”
Plaza Street and Flatbush
The Ignominy of Desire
Cleaning the Clock
A Version of the Future
Love Without End
Invisible Bride
The Furniture of My Own Neglect
Oakland 1991
by Josh Weiner
Conversations
Reviews
American Joe
by Nell Beram
Cover My Body with Mud, Give Me Back My Eyes
by Valerie Duff
The Authentic is a Line
by Eric McHenry
In Memoriam
Poetry by Adrienne Rich, Sándor Csoóri, Philip Levine, Jason Shinder, Judy Page Heitzman, and others; fiction by Pushcart Prize-winner Tony Ardizzone, National Book Award runner-up Rose Moss, Frederick Busch, and Perrin Ireland. Nonfiction by Tom Sleigh; Jason Shinder interview with Philip Levine; Eric Chasalow on “AGNI in the Music Business”; reviews by Eric McHenry, and others. Document section features drafts of Robert Pinsky’s “The Ice-Storm.”
| Editor | Askold Melnyczuk | ||
| Managing Editor | Colette Kelso | ||
| Advisory Board | Leslie Epstein | ||
| Robert Pinsky | |||
| Derek Walcott | |||
| Art Director | Gerry Bergstein | ||
| Music Editor | Eric Chasalow | ||
| Editor Emerita | Sharon Dunn | ||
| Editorial Assistants | Karen Bowes | ||
| Christopher Castellani | |||
| Matthew Hutchinson | |||
| Guillermo Parra | |||
| Rachel Safko | |||
| Eric Schramm | |||
| Albert Waitt | |||
| Poetry Panel | Valerie Duff (CHAIR) | ||
| Thomas Sayers Ellis | |||
| Michael Franco | |||
| Dzvinia Orlowsky | |||
| 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 |