AGNI 58
Contents
Editor’s Note
Fiction
A Cup of Coffee in the Café on Ostozhenka
Translated from the Russian by John Mason and Byron Lindsey
Witness
by Liza Ward
Essays
Metaphysical Messages: With J. L. B. in Buenos Aires
Poetry
Sonnenwendenlieder
You
Akhmatova’s “The Summer Garden”
How Bad Can It Get
by Mark Rudman
Sit Down by the River (Ghazal #262)
Translated from the Persian by Robert Bly and Leonard Lewisohn
In the Country
Twister
Missile
Art Feature
Breaking Ground
The beauty of the book. Fiction by Alden Jones, Liza Ward, Debra Spark, Patrick Tobin, and Yevgeny Schklovsky. Poetry by Robert Pinsky, Robert Bly, Kirun Kapur, Robert Polito, Jason Labbe, April Bernard, Li Po, Ewa Lipska, Peter Campion, Raffaello Baldini (translated by Adria Bernardi), and more. Essays by Mark Slouka, Ilan Stavans, and memoir by Lynne Sharon Schwartz and Alice Mattison. And paradoxically stunning images of old books by photographer Rosamond Purcell in a full-color, glossy 8-page insert.
| Editor | Sven Birkerts | ||
| Founding Editor | Askold Melnyczuk | ||
| Managing Editor | Eric Grunwald | ||
| Associate Fiction Editor | Jennifer Joerg Blum | ||
| Associate Poetry Editor | Rachel DeWoskin | ||
| Fiction Reader | William Giraldi | ||
| Advisory Board | Leslie Epstein | ||
| Robert Pinsky | |||
| Derek Walcott | |||
| Editor Emerita | Sharon Dunn | ||
| Editorial Assistants | Lisa Gordon | ||
| Sara Huneke | |||
| Kayla Riccio | |||
| Contributing Editors | Thomas Bahr | ||
| Erin Belieu | |||
| 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 | |||
| Rosanna Warren | |||
| Oksana Zabuzhko |