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AGNI 59

Contents

Fiction

My Father, the Perfect Man
from The Tardigrade: 8. Permafrost; 9. Pirogi; 15. The Formal Personal Pronoun

Essays

Language in Myth, Religion, Saga, and Tale
Tomaz Salamun and His “Tribe”
Domains
Shadowboxing: Gentlemen’s Disagreements

Poetry

Window on a Projectionist Rewinding
Geography on a Grapefruit
The Dissection
The Prisoner’s Visitation
Besides Sappho
The Fly
Sweet Reality
Translated from the Turkish by Richard Tillinghast
Water
Translated from the Turkish by Richard Tillinghast
The Aluminum Shop
Translated from the Turkish by Richard Tillinghast
Knothead
Translated from the French by Marilyn Hacker
Herr Greedyguts
Translated from the German by Gerald Chapple
In July
Translated from the German by Gerald Chapple
Autumn Days
Translated from the German by Gerald Chapple
Stair
Translated from the Slovenian by Tomaž Šalamun and Christopher Merrill
At Night Rabbits
Translated from the Slovenian by Ana Jelnikar and Peter Richards
in winter
Translated from the Slovenian by Tomaž Šalamun and Elliott Anderson
Dis Pater
from Yucca Mountain Sequence: i and iii
On Recalling Joel Peter Witkin’s “The Kiss” on a Woodland Walk in Autumn
AGNI 59

The hand-breadth of the unknown. Fiction by Vivek Narayanan, Paul West, Martha Cooley, Keith Gessen, Jacob Appel (his “The Frying Finn” coincidentally convergent with the photographs of Finnish-American artist Arno Minkkinen), Chris Abouzeid and Joan Wickersham. A boyhood memoir by Donald Hall. Poetry by Wesley McNair, James Arthur, Edip Cansever, Brian Swann, Judith Vollmer, Jeffrey Harrison, David Hernandez, and others. Louise Glück’s “Prism” essayed by Dan Chiasson, and Tomaž Šalamun celebrated by Aleš Debeljak. Musings on the real and the fabulous by William Pierce. Much more.

  EditorSven Birkerts
  Founding EditorAskold Melnyczuk
  Managing EditorEric Grunwald
  Associate Fiction EditorWilliam Giraldi
   Jenna Blum
  Associate Poetry EditorEllen Wehle
   Rachel DeWoskin
  Advisory BoardLeslie Epstein
   Robert Pinsky
   Derek Walcott
  Editor EmeritaSharon Dunn
  Editorial AssistantsIan Breen
   Patrick Frank
   Agnes Gyorfi
   Tracey Knapp
   Jessica Lott
   Moana Minton
   Thu Nguyen
   Katie Sigelman
   Jennifer Stroup (Jennifer Alise Drew)
  Contributing EditorsThomas 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
   Sue Standing
   Rosanna Warren
   Oksana Zabuzhko
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