AGNI 60
Contents
Editor's Note
Reading at the Limit
Essays
Truth in Oxiana
by Tom Bissell
Hammer
by Harvey Blume
The Annotated Mix-Tape
Shadowboxing: From the Diary of a Self-hating Pundit
Poetry
At the Shrine of the Lost Cause
by Dick Allen
Trajectory
by Ciaran Berry
four pieces of Severance: Piers Gaveston, Chin Chin Chin, Jennifer Hadley, Robert Kornbluth
Adoration
Gold Star Road
Camus: Carnets
ars poetica
Dear Lunacy
Half Not
House on Water, House in Air
ars poetica
by Megan Newell
Frictions
Latecomers
After Herodotus
by Tom Sleigh
Ziggurat
by Tom Sleigh
Letzeburgesch
by James Tate
Coda: For Whom the Bell Tolls
by Sam Taylor
Desire
The Center of Gravity
Adieu
Eurydice
Words at the threshold. Fiction by Jack Pulaski, Sari Wilson, Kim Adrian, Charles Haverty, Jai Clare, and Margot Singer. Reflections and texts by Russell Banks, Harvey Blume, Lia Purpura, Tom Bissell, as well as portfolio and cover artist Katherine Jackson. Poetry by Catullus, Robert Olen Butler, James Tate, George Kalogeris, Fred Marchant, Megan Newell, Tom Sleigh, and many others.
Editor
Sven Birkerts
Sven Birkerts
Founding Editor
Askold Melnyczuk
Askold Melnyczuk
Senior Editor
William Pierce
William Pierce
Associate Fiction Editors
William Giraldi
William Charles Delman
William Giraldi, William Charles Delman
Associate Poetry Editors
Ellen Wehle
Rachel DeWoskin
Ellen Wehle, Rachel DeWoskin
Webmaster
Tracey Knapp
Tracey Knapp
Advisory Board
Leslie Epstein
Robert Pinsky
Derek Walcott
Leslie Epstein, Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott
Editorial Assistants
Eric Markowsky
Agnes Gyorfi
Patrick Frank
Ian Breen
Moana Minton
Jessica Lott
Katie Sigelman
Jennifer Stroup (Jennifer Alise Drew)
H. Heckman-McKenna
Eric Markowsky, Agnes Gyorfi, Patrick Frank, Ian Breen, Moana Minton, Jessica Lott, Katie Sigelman, Jennifer Stroup (Jennifer Alise Drew), H. Heckman-McKenna
Contributing Editors
Thomas Bahr
Erin Belieu
Lucie Brock-Broido
John J. Clayton
William Corbett
Stuart Dischell
Sharon Dunn, ed. emerita
Thomas Sayers Ellis
Marie Howe
Diana Der-Hovanessian
Ha Jin
Alex Johnson
Susan Johnson
Julia Lieblich
Fred Marchant
Fiona McCrae
Gail Mazur
Dzvinia Orlowsky
George Packer
Liam Rector
Scott Ruescher
George Scialabba
Tom Sleigh
Sue Standing
Rosanna Warren
Oksana Zabuzhko
Thomas Bahr, Erin Belieu, Lucie Brock-Broido, John J. Clayton, William Corbett, Stuart Dischell, Sharon Dunn, ed. emerita, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Marie Howe, Diana Der-Hovanessian, Ha Jin, Alex Johnson, Susan Johnson, Julia Lieblich, Fred Marchant, Fiona McCrae, Gail Mazur, Dzvinia Orlowsky, George Packer, Liam Rector, Scott Ruescher, George Scialabba, Tom Sleigh, Sue Standing, Rosanna Warren, Oksana Zabuzhko