AGNI 53
Contents
Fiction
The Sugar-Tit
Me & Wolfie, 1979
Essays
Innocents Abroad
by DeWitt Henry
Oksana Zabuzhko’s Field Work in Ukrainian Sex
by Halyna Hryn
The Oneness of Music
Poetry
Amichai 1924–2000
Listener of Bats
Century
by Joel Brouwer
Detroit
by Joel Brouwer
Meadow
by Joel Brouwer
Canal Park Drive
by Stephen Burt
Chorale
Niagara Diary
On Translating Poems by American Authors
Translated from the Polish by Clare Cavanagh
Childhood’s Face
Heather and the Hair Color of Hope
Wildflower Sextet
by Rodney Jack
The Tree
Drafts of the last poem he wrote, “From all the hands of the Hillbilly Ranch”
Five untitled prose poems
The Little Sisters of the Sacred Heart
by David Kirby
Over
Quo Journal: Good Friday
Quo Journal: Waxwing Icarus
Quo Journal: Civics
Happy as I Am
by Steve Orlen
The Daughter of Snow
City Tree
Lullaby
Conversations
Fiction by Joyce Carol Oates, Carolyn Cooke, Chitra Divakaruni, and Lynne Sharon Schwartz; poetry by Agha Shahid Ali, James Tate, Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Cynthia Huntington, Martha Collins, Meg Kearney, Rodney Jack, and Michael Morse; nonfiction by Yuri Andrukhovych and Ploughshares founder DeWitt Henry; art by Joel Janowitz; and drafts of Randall Jarrell’s last poem.
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| Poetry Editor | Michael Collier | ||
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