AGNI 56
Contents
Editor’s Note
Poetry
from Prayers: 1
Translated from the Ukrainian by Bohdan Rubchak and Askold Melnyczuk
Letter to the American Poet Gregory Corso
Translated from the Hungarian by Len Roberts and László Vértes
For the Homeland
Translated from the Turkish by Richard Schwarzenberger and Grace Martin Smith
The Threat of Another New England Winter and a Faltering Economy Drives Me Deep into the Woods
by Ira Sadoff
A Few Words on the Soul
Translated from the Polish by Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanagh
The River
Translated from the Vietnamese by Martha Collins and Nguyen Quang Thieu
from The Wooden Horse
Translated from the Spanish by Martín Espada and Camilo Pérez-Bustillo
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 |