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
Cake or Death?
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
Poem 22
By Catullus
Translated by Diane Arnson Svarlien
Adoration
One of the Things
By Luciano Erba
Translated by Ann Snodgrass
I’d Like to Go Down in History
By Luciano Erba
Translated by Ann Snodgrass
When the Sun Shifts
By Luciano Erba
Translated by Ann Snodgrass
Gold Star Road
By Peter Huchel
Translated by Joel Spector
By Peter Huchel
Translated by Joel Spector
Camus: Carnets
from Stròlegh
By Franco Loi
Translated by Andrew Frisardi
House on Water, House in Air
ars poetica
Dear Lunacy
Half Not
Ars Poetica
By Megan Newell
Latecomers
Frictions
Swan Song
By Ted Richer
Ziggurat
By Tom Sleigh
After Herodotus
By Tom Sleigh
Letzeburgesch
By James Tate
Coda: For Whom the Bell Tolls
By Sam Taylor
The Center of Gravity
Desire
Eurydice
Adieu
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.