AGNI 61
Contents
Editor’s Note
The Ideal Reader
Fiction
Stadium
Encounters with the Kodambakkam Hyena
On Junius Bridge
Poetry
Train
by Amy Beeder
Spelunker
Columbarium
Cat’s Eye in a Splintered Mirror: 5
by Xue Di
Translated from the Chinese by Hu Qian and Keith Waldrop
Stenographer of the Damned
Tabula Rasa
by Henry Hart
Out of This World
At First, They
by Gail Mazur
Grounding
by Sandra Meek
The Neighbor
Cartwheels
by Donald Platt
Honoring the spirit that survives. Valedictories for Susan Sontag and Czeslaw Milosz by Askold Melnyczuk, Sven Birkerts, and Seamus Heaney, along with fiercely idiosyncratic prose and poetry by C. K. Williams, K. E. Duffin, Magdalena Tulli, Peter LaSalle, Vivek Narayanan, Edith Pearlman, Kyle Thompson, and many others. Visual meditations on word-to-form by Deborah Davidson.
| Editor | Sven Birkerts | ||
| Founding Editor | Askold Melnyczuk | ||
| Senior Editor | William Pierce | ||
| Fiction Editors | William Giraldi | ||
| William Charles Delman | |||
| Jessica Keener | |||
| Poetry Editors | Ellen Wehle | ||
| Rachel DeWoskin | |||
| Office Manager | Agnes Gyorfi | ||
| Advisory Board | Leslie Epstein | ||
| Robert Pinsky | |||
| Derek Walcott | |||
| Editorial Assistants | Neil Angis | ||
| Jim Sitar | |||
| Camille Rankine | |||
| Zachary Read | |||
| Evan Magers | |||
| Rebecca Wangh | |||
| Krista Meany | |||
| John Spaulding | |||
| Nigel Assam | |||
| 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 | |||
| Joe Osterhaus | |||
| Dzvinia Orlowsky | |||
| George Packer | |||
| Liam Rector | |||
| Scott Ruescher | |||
| George Scialabba | |||
| Tom Sleigh | |||
| Sue Standing | |||
| Rosanna Warren | |||
| Oksana Zabuzhko |