AGNI 52
Contents
Editor’s Note
Fiction
New Slave, Old Master
But, Microsoft! What Byte through Yonder Windows Breaks?
Hugo 2000
Essays
Rafael Alberti between the Sword and the Carnation
by Louis Bourne
Mixed Choir with Eleven Voices
Melville’s The Confidence Man and His Descendants in David Mamet’s Work
What the Poets in Germany Are Up To These Days
by David Lehman
A Note on Eduard Bagritskii’s “Origin”
The Rise and Fall of Yiddish
by Ilan Stavans
Poetry
The Coming Back of Chopin through Hands Now Gone
Translated from the Spanish by Louis Bourne
Under Scorpio
Lowlands
Hoods and Scatters
In Between
Draft of “El Poeta Declara Su Nombradía”
Ruminant
by Scott Cairns
Having Descended to the Heart
by Scott Cairns
Easter
by Dan Chiasson
Phantom Pain
Uncle Emmet, Wiser Than God
by David Daniel
Venus Among the Wanders
by David Daniel
God Compares the Soul to Five Things
by David Daniel
Nights and Days
by David Daniel
Table
by David Daniel
Revival
Notice
Muslin
Mathematics
self-portrait as youth with cherries
Translated from the German by Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright
Jazz Poem
The Satrapy
Body, Remember
Labor
Social Cleansing Including Request for Spiritual Assistance
Translated from the German by Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright
Untitled
Confirmation
Unlucky Photographers
by Dara Wier
Art Feature
On Gail Boyajian’s Three Paintings (essay)
Enjoying the Out of Doors
Communication
A View From Above
Conversations
Reviews
Found in the Dreamhouse
The Biography of Displacement
The Language of Sorrow
by Rafael Campo
“There Are Other Stories”: Pamela Painter’s The Long and Short of It
A Real Modest Proposal
by Zhu Hong
Democracy’s Disconnect
by David Lehn
Seeing Dickinson Plain: Editorial Strategies and the Poet’s Intentions
Swords and Scalpels
by Rose Moss
Visiting This Life
The Poetry of Freedom (translated from the Polish by Clare Cavanagh)
Translated from the Polish by Clare Cavanagh
Previously unpublished interviews with Jorge Luis Borges and Stanley Kunitz; the “Best German Poetry of 2000” in translation; fiction by Madison Smartt Bell, Pamela Painter, and Charles Bock; poetry by Daniel Berrigan, Jason Shinder, Peter Balakian, Dara Wier, Dan Chiasson, Charles Bernstein, and Linda Gregg and Thomas Sayers Ellis; “The Rise and Fall of Yiddish” by Ilan Stavans.
| Editor | Askold Melnyczuk | ||
| Managing Editor | Eric Grunwald | ||
| Advisory Board | Leslie Epstein | ||
| Robert Pinsky | |||
| Derek Walcott | |||
| Art Editor | Gerry Bergstein | ||
| Music Editor | Eric Chasalow | ||
| Poetry Editor | Valerie Duff | ||
| Fiction Review Editor | Mark Brownlow | ||
| Editor Emerita | Sharon Dunn | ||
| Editorial Assistants | Josette Akresh | ||
| Christopher Brätt | |||
| Rachel DeWoskin | |||
| Annie Gauger | |||
| Claire Jarvis | |||
| Nick Montfort | |||
| Christopher Rizzo | |||
| 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 |