AGNI 51
Contents
Editor's Note
Essays
Silent Reading: Southern Gnostic and the State of the Union
Silent Reading: Southern Gnostic and the State of the Union
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 Ukrainian by Michael M. Naydan
The Mountain
Leaving Earth
by Thomas Bolt
Two Traditional Texts
Translated from Buryat by Sayan Zhambalov, Virlana Tkacz, and Wanda Phipps
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
The Script
by Ha Jin
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
Backtalk to Sky
Descendant
History of Revolutions
from Tiepolo’s Hound: Book Four, Section XIX
Light of the Heavens
Translated from Buryat by Sayan Zhambalov, Virlana Tkacz, and Wanda Phipps
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Previously unpublished conversation with Joseph Brodsky; first published excerpts from Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott’s Tiepelo’s Hound (illustrated with his own watercolor painting);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
Askold Melnyczuk
Managing Editor
Eric Grunwald
Eric Grunwald
Advisory Board
Leslie Epstein
Robert Pinsky
Derek Walcott
Leslie Epstein, Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott
Art Editor
Gerry Bergstein
Gerry Bergstein
Music Editor
Eric Chasalow
Eric Chasalow
Poetry Review Editor
Valerie Duff
Valerie Duff
Fiction Review Editor
Mark Brownlow
Mark Brownlow
Editor Emerita
Sharon Dunn
Sharon Dunn
Editorial Assistants
Helena Echlin
Despena Christope
Shea Dean
Claire Jarvis
Molly Wales
Benno Weisberg
Helena Echlin, Despena Christope, Shea Dean, Claire Jarvis, Molly Wales, Benno Weisberg
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