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.