AGNI 55
Contents
Editor’s Note
Shadowboxing: The Future of Literature in America
Fiction
I’m Here, You’re There
Poetry
What’s Up
Chercher
Reunion
by Kevin Craft
Harm
It Is Night in My Study
Two Mineiro Poems on the Love of Death
Prologue of the Horses
Great Hill Lyric
by Andrew Feld
Requin
by Carol Frost
Thunderstorm
by Carol Frost
Dichterliebe, for Voice and Piano
The Religion of Art Revisited
Pomegranates
by James Hoch
Bathers
by James Hoch
First Day at San Ramon
Blueprint for Civilization Sometimes Lost in Frivolous Detail
by Mark Irwin
“Slip back into your mother, Leah”
Translated from the Russian by Maxim D. Shrayer and J. B. Sisson
“One Alexander Herzevich”
Translated from the Russian by Maxim D. Shrayer and J. B. Sisson
“Say, desert geometer, shaper”
Translated from the Russian by Maxim D. Shrayer and J. B. Sisson
The Heart
Translated from the Danish by Carsten Rene Nielsen and David Keplinger
Cold Shoulder
Indeterminacy
Maritime
by Sharon Olds
Unknown
by Sharon Olds
Keeping
by John Poch
Shaking the Snow Globe
The Moderns
Affair
Obsession
A Piece of Fruit
A Numb Thumb
The Spinning World
by Ann Townsend
Narcissus and the Aquarium Guide
Something Relentless Pushing Me
Still Life with Gerund
Helen Keller
by David Wojahn
Sawdust
by David Wojahn
Reviews
The Linguistic Blizzard Beating Still
Collective Lives
Our spring 2002 issue reaffirms AGNI’s commitment to up-and-coming writers with fiction by Wendy Button, Daphne Kalotay, and Priscilla Hodgkins; poetry from Brian Blanchfield, Christine Hume, Christine Perrin, and Bryan Walpert; and nonfiction by M. Elaine Mar, Judy Karasik and Debbie Danielpour Chapel, to name but a few. Also work by Natalia Ginzburg (translated by Lynne Sharon Schwartz), John J. Clayton, Osip Mandelshtam (tr. Maxim D. Shrayer), Ovid (tr. Tom Sleigh), and Guy de Maupassant (tr. Matt Yost).
| Editor | Askold Melnyczuk | ||
| Managing Editor | Eric Grunwald | ||
| Advisory Board | Leslie Epstein | ||
| Robert Pinsky | |||
| Derek Walcott | |||
| Poetry Editor | Michael Collier | ||
| Associate Poetry Editor | Claire Jarvis | ||
| Associate Fiction Editor | Jennifer Joerg Blum | ||
| Art Editor | Gerry Bergstein | ||
| Music Editor | Eric Chasalow | ||
| Editor Emerita | Sharon Dunn | ||
| Editorial Assistants | Kerin Flatley | ||
| Greta Hansen | |||
| Johanna Slade | |||
| Chris Souza | |||
| Julia Stevens | |||
| Yunshi Wang | |||
| 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 |