AGNI 51
Contents
Essays
Silent Reading: Southern Gnostic and the State of the Union
A Conversation with Joseph Brodsky
In Memoriam: Solomea Pavlychko
Master of Palindromes: Remembering and Rereading Michael B. Kreps
Preface to Lynette Labinger’s Conversation with Joseph Brodsky
Poetry
Midnight Flight Down High Castle Hill
Translated from the Ukrainian by Michael M. Naydan
The Mountain
Leaving Earth
by Thomas Bolt
Two Traditional Texts
Holy Things
Bread
Stealing from Your Mother
by Dan Chiasson
The Word
Morning Walk in the Orchard
Half Empty/Half Full
by Sarah Gorham
Watch Your Language
by Sarah Gorham
from The Daily Mirror: February 8, April 23, August 12, September 10, December 23
by David Lehman
The 3rd Avenue El
Late in the Century
The Angels of Reason
The Knight’s Prayer
Interlude: The Lees
Penelope
Eohippus
Seige Piece
The Forces
by Amy Thomas
Siberian Signs
History of Revolutions
Backtalk to Sky
Descendant
from Tiepolo’s Hound: Book Four, Section XIX
Light of the Heavens
Reviews
Where I Am Is So Large
by Jim Behrle
Better with Age
Significant Others
The Mind’s Way of Hanging On
Previously unpublished conversation with Joseph Brodsky; first published excerpts from Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott’s Tiepelo’s Hound (illustrated with his own watercolor painting); poetry by Ha Jin, Robert Bly, Robert Pinsky, Heather McHugh, F. D. Reeve, Amy Thomas, John Peck, and Larissa Szporluk; fiction by Julia Thacker and James Whitfield Thomson; nonfiction by Sarah Silbert and George DeMan. Lszl Fldnyi on Triumph of the Will.
| Editor | Askold Melnyczuk | ||
| Managing Editor | Eric Grunwald | ||
| Advisory Board | Leslie Epstein | ||
| Robert Pinsky | |||
| Derek Walcott | |||
| Art Editor | Gerry Bergstein | ||
| Music Editor | Eric Chasalow | ||
| Poetry Review Editor | Valerie Duff | ||
| Fiction Review Editor | Mark Brownlow | ||
| Editor Emerita | Sharon Dunn | ||
| Editorial Assistants | Helena Echlin | ||
| Despena Christope | |||
| Shea Dean | |||
| Claire Jarvis | |||
| Molly Wales | |||
| Benno Weisberg | |||
| 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 |