AGNI 59
Contents
Fiction
My Father, the Perfect Man
from The Tardigrade: 8. Permafrost; 9. Pirogi; 15. The Formal Personal Pronoun
By Paul West
Essays
How to Read the World: Louise Glück’s “Prism”
By Dan Chiasson
Language in Myth, Religion, Saga, and Tale
Tomaz Salamun and His “Tribe”
Domains
By Donald Hall
Shadowboxing: Gentlemen’s Disagreements
Poetry
The Dissection
By James Arthur
Geography on a Grapefruit
By James Arthur
Window on a Projectionist Rewinding
By James Arthur
The Prisoner’s Visitation
By John Bensko
Besides Sappho
By Simeon Berry
The Fly
The Other
Prism
By Louise Glück
Dis Pater
By Brian Swann
from Yucca Mountain Sequence: i and iii
On Recalling Joel Peter Witkin’s “The Kiss” on a Woodland Walk in Autumn
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.