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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?
David Mamet and Poetic Language in Drama
First Love: A Memoir
One Person in Three Substances, or Three Substances in One Person?
The Transfiguration of Pinsky

Poetry

Biographical Fragment
Translated from the Hungarian by Len Roberts and Maria Szende
A Little Song About Negative Capability
A Little Song About Plastic
Elect Bastard Toadflax
It’s Hard to Be the Child
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

Conversations

Interview with Philip Levine
Translated by Philip Levine

Reviews

American Joe
Cover My Body with Mud, Give Me Back My Eyes
The Authentic is a Line
In Memoriam
AGNI 49

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.”

  EditorAskold Melnyczuk
  Managing EditorColette Kelso
  Advisory BoardLeslie Epstein
   Robert Pinsky
   Derek Walcott
  Art DirectorGerry Bergstein
  Music EditorEric Chasalow
  Editor EmeritaSharon Dunn
  Editorial AssistantsKaren Bowes
   Christopher Castellani
   Matthew Hutchinson
   Guillermo Parra
   Rachel Safko
   Eric Schramm
   Albert Waitt
  Poetry PanelValerie Duff (CHAIR)
   Thomas Sayers Ellis
   Michael Franco
   Dzvinia Orlowsky
  Contributing EditorsThomas 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
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