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AGNI 56

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Poetry

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Translated from Russian by Judith Hemschemeyer
“Evening darkens until”
Translated from Japanese by Kenneth Rexroth
Sepharad, 1492
Translated from Spanish by Homero Aridjis and George McWhirter
The Mad Woman
Translated from Ukrainian by Stash
No Mourning
Translated from German by Teresa Iverson
Summer Again
Translated from French by Hoyt Rogers
Self-criticism
Translated from Spanish by Garry Emmons
Heraclitus
Translated from Spanish by Thomas Frick
from Prayers: 1
Translated from Ukrainian by Bohdan Rubchak and Askold Melnyczuk
Untitled
Translated from German by Franz Wright
I Wanted
Translated from Spanish by Alan West
The Sun Singers
Translated from Chinese by Tony Barnstone, Willis Barnstone, and Xi Chuan
Swan
Translated from Ukrainian by Oleh Lysheha and James Brasfield
Xenia I
Translated from Italian by William Arrowsmith
Tequila
Translated from Spanish by Forrest Gander
Oblique Rain
Translated from Portuguese by Isabel Pinto Franco
The King of Tasmania
Translated from Ukrainian by Askold Melnyczuk
Lighter, Darker
Translated from Polish by Piotr Sommer and M. Kasper
The River
Translated from Vietnamese by Martha Collins and Nguyen Quang Thieu
Paris, October 1936
Translated from Spanish by Daniel Bosch
The Fence
Translated from Arabic by Khaled Mattawa
A Definition of Poetry
Translated from Ukrainian by Michael M. Naydan
The Majesty of Sleep
Translated from Polish by Clare Cavanagh
The Soul
Translated from Polish by Clare Cavanagh
Bambi
Translated from Slovenian by Tomaž Šalamun and Matthew Rohrer
AGNI 56

Our mammoth, 480-page Thirtieth Anniversary Poetry Anthology, containing superb original work by over 240 contributors to AGNI since 1972. From the most famous poets—Derek Walcott, Seamus Heaney, Wislawa Szymborska, Joseph Brodsky, Adrienne Rich, Odysseas Elytis, Rita Dove, Eugenio Montale, and Ai—to those you’ve never heard of but will soon wish you had, the work in this issue, the last to be edited by Founding Editor Askold Melnyczuk, comprises a milestone compendium of the energy and scope of American poets and translators over the past three decades.

Editor
Sven Birkerts
Founding Editor
Askold Melnyczuk
Managing Editor
Eric Grunwald
Advisory Board
Leslie Epstein, Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott
Art Editor
Gerry Bergstein
Music Editor
Eric Chasalow
Editor Emerita
Sharon Dunn
Editorial Assistants
Liz Behrend, Nate Beyer, Darcie DeAngelo, Katie Krell, Scarlett Stoppa
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
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