AGNI 51
Contents
Essays
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
The Angels of Reason
Late in the Century
The Knight’s Prayer
Interlude: The Lees
Penelope
Seige Piece
Eohippus
The Forces
By Amy Thomas
Siberian Signs
Descendant
History of Revolutions
Backtalk to Sky
from Tiepolo’s Hound: Book Four, Section XIX
Light of the Heavens
Interviews
A Conversation with Joseph Brodsky
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Previously unpublished conversation with Joseph Brodsky; first published excerpts from Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott’s Tiepelo’s Hound (illustrated with his own watercolor painting);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.