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
House on Water, House in Air
Dear Lunacy
Half Not
ars poetica
ars poetica
by Megan Newell
Latecomers
Frictions
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 | ||
| Founding Editor | Askold Melnyczuk | ||
| Senior Editor | William Pierce | ||
| Associate Fiction Editors | William Giraldi | ||
| William Charles Delman | |||
| Associate Poetry Editors | Ellen Wehle | ||
| Rachel DeWoskin | |||
| Webmaster | Tracey Knapp | ||
| Advisory Board | 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 | |||
| 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 |