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
A Quiet Death in a Small Red Closet
What He Wrote on a Legal Pad
Art Feature
Introduction to the Art Feature (essay)
Abandoned Mill House: Room with Fireplace and Disintegrating Brick Wall
George Houston House: Blue Wideboard Room with Two Windows and a Fireplace
Gholson Homeplace: Entryway with Front Door
McMullen Building: Wall Detail with Face
Conversations
Nabokov: Letters to the American Translator
Translated by Maxim D. Shrayer
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
Askold Melnyczuk
Managing Editor
Colette Kelso
Colette Kelso
Advisory Board
Leslie Epstein
Robert Pinsky
Derek Walcott
Leslie Epstein, Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott
Art Director
Gerry Bergstein
Gerry Bergstein
Music Editor
Eric Chasalow
Eric Chasalow
Editor Emerita
Sharon Dunn
Sharon Dunn
Editorial Assistants
Valerie Bandura
Ray Bartlett
Rosemarie Ellis
Brian McDonald
Eric Schramm
Nicole Vollrath
Molly Wales
Valerie Bandura, Ray Bartlett, Rosemarie Ellis, Brian McDonald, Eric Schramm, Nicole Vollrath, Molly Wales
Poetry Panel
Valerie Duff (CHAIR)
Michael Franco
Dzvinia Orlowsky
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
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