AGNI 50
Contents
Fiction
Invisible Country
from Four Seasons in April
Loverboy
The Greek Version
Mannequin
Essays
Introduction to the Art Feature: Shellburne Thurber
Sweet Fire: Memories of Andre Dubus
Poetry
To Be Beautiful, the Nose Must Be Straight, and the Eyes Blue
The Tunnel of Love
by Mark Conway
from Critical Opalescence and the Blueness of the Sky: 1-4
Cerise
by Tory Dent
The Wrinkle Ode
by Maggie Dietz
After
by Gary Duehr
Plants Move
by Ross Martin
Dropped Thing
The Lightning Field (II)
by Carol Moldaw
Kneeling Self-Portrait
Jeffersonian
What He Wrote on a Legal Pad
A Quiet Death in a Small Red Closet
Art Feature
Introduction to the Art Feature (essay)
Gholson Homeplace: Entryway with Front Door
George Houston House: Blue Wideboard Room with Two Windows and a Fireplace
McMullen Building: Wall Detail with Face
Abandoned Mill House: Room with Fireplace and Disintegrating Brick Wall
Conversations
Reviews
A Terrible Beauty is Born
by Valerie Duff
A Wider Vision
by Linda Lappin
Opportunity Knocks
by Diane Mehta
Domestic Shadows: Poems from Home
Collaborative Feature
Art Feature
Building
Collision
Living Room
Witness
Interview with Derek Walcott on Omeros; poetry by Yusef Komunyakaa, Reginald Sheperd, Maggie Dietz, Joyce Peseroff, Eric McHenry, JSA Lowe, Reetika Vazirani; fiction by Thomas E. Kennedy, Mike Rosovsky, John Keene (winner of the AGNI 2000 John Cheever Award for Short Fiction), Victor Pelevin (translated by Byron Lindsey, winner of the AGNI 2000 William Arrowsmith Prize for Translation); nonfiction by Duff Brenna; Eric Chasalow on Mario Davidovsky; Jean Charbonneau on Patrick Modiano; Linda Lappin on Peter Brook; Diane Mehta on Jhumpa Lahiri.
| 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 | Valerie Bandura | ||
| Ray Bartlett | |||
| Rosemarie Ellis | |||
| Brian McDonald | |||
| Eric Schramm | |||
| Nicole Vollrath | |||
| Molly Wales | |||
| Poetry Panel | Valerie Duff (CHAIR) | ||
| 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 |