AGNI 59
Contents
Editor's Note
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.
| Editor | Sven Birkerts | ||
| Founding Editor | Askold Melnyczuk | ||
| Managing Editor | Eric Grunwald | ||
| Associate Fiction Editor | William Giraldi | ||
| Jenna Blum | |||
| Associate Poetry Editor | Ellen Wehle | ||
| Rachel DeWoskin | |||
| Advisory Board | Leslie Epstein | ||
| Robert Pinsky | |||
| Derek Walcott | |||
| Editor Emerita | Sharon Dunn | ||
| Editorial Assistants | Ian Breen | ||
| Patrick Frank | |||
| Agnes Gyorfi | |||
| Tracey Knapp | |||
| Jessica Lott | |||
| Moana Minton | |||
| Thu Nguyen | |||
| Katie Sigelman | |||
| Jennifer Stroup (Jennifer Alise Drew) | |||
| 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 | |||
| Sue Standing | |||
| Rosanna Warren | |||
| Oksana Zabuzhko |