AGNI 58
Contents
Editor's Note
Fiction
A Cup of Coffee in the Café on Ostozhenko
Translated from the Russian by John Mason and Byron Lindsey
Witness
By Liza Ward
Essays
Metaphysical Messages: With J. L. B. in Buenos Aires
Breaking Ground
Poetry
Sonnenwendenlieder
You
Akhmatova’s “The Summer Garden”
How Bad Can It Get
By Mark Rudman
Sit Down by the River
Translated from the Persian by Robert Bly and Leonard Lewisohn
Twister
In the Country
Missile
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.