AGNI 57
Contents
Essays
With How Sad Steps, O Moon
Lorca
Poetry
Two Dancers
from Natural History: The Elephant
By Dan Chiasson
Invocation to the Heart
No One Knows What Tomorrow Is Called
By Wyn Cooper
A Scrap of Fabric at Chatham
Beautiful Treasure
From the Beginning On
Jacopone: On the Cobbles
Jacopone: The Scissors
I Have Shuttered My Eyes with My Hands
Leaving the Farm
Nagasaki, 1600
Letter over a Thousand Years Late
The Change
Survey
Triplets
By David Lehman
Welcome to Paradise
The Point Beach
Austerlitz
Frogs
By Evan Rail
Static
New Editor Sven Birkerts’s first issue. Includes work by Seamus Heaney, Maureen Howard, David Foster Wallace, Rosanna Warren, Rick Moody, Margot Livesey, Wesley McNair, Christopher Jane Corkery, Wolfgang Hilbig, David Wagoner, Maggie Dietz, Debora Greger, Nicholas Montemarano, Lise Haines, Lance Larsen, Harvey Blume, and many more. Pinhole photographs (including cover) by Jesseca Ferguson.