AGNI 63
Contents
Editor's Note
Fictions
The Clawed Claims of Bear Love
Monsieur le Genius
by Paul Eggers
Confession for Raymond Good Bird
Essays
Seven essays from The Double Serpent: Subtexts in Medicine: caduceus, diseasification, morphine—by way of an explanation, radical mastectomy, sulfa, urinalysis, wound
Blessing the New Moon
An Attempt at a Biographical Essay
Poetry
Reliquary
from The Tituba Letters: What Were These Pretty Things, Tituba Speaks of Betty Parris, Tituba Speaks of the Weaver, What Evil Spirit Have You Familyarity With
suffering
by Quan Barry
The Hunter and the Figs
Pond
by Kurt Brown
Sanctum
by Kurt Brown
Forgiveness
The Song of the Books
A Leaf, A Hare
Android Clarinetist
by Robin Ekiss
Dream Week
Red Door
by Donald Platt
Lesson
American Ghazals
by Susan Tichy
Predator
by Susan Tichy
Dare You
by Alpay Ulku
Hollyhocks for Myself
by Alpay Ulku
Old Suddenly
by Alpay Ulku
Art Feature
from Philosophic Journal (essay)
Illuminations
Where mind meets intuition. Powerful exploratory fiction by Paul Eggers, Alexandra Chasin, Melanie Rae Thon, Maja Novak, and Phong Nguyen; poems by Alpay Ulku, Sandra McPherson, Donald Platt, Friedrich Hölderlin, and others; sui generis essays by Joan Wickersham, Ben Miller, Christopher Livaccari, A. P. Miller, and Charles Bardes—all held in the presiding visual force-field of artist Christopher Gausby.
Editor
Sven Birkerts
Sven Birkerts
Founding Editor
Askold Melnyczuk
Askold Melnyczuk
Senior Editor
William Pierce
William Pierce
Fiction Editors
William Giraldi
William Charles Delman
Jessica Keener
William Giraldi, William Charles Delman, Jessica Keener
Poetry Editors
Ellen Wehle
Rachel DeWoskin
Ellen Wehle, Rachel DeWoskin
Office Manager
Agnes Gyorfi
Agnes Gyorfi
Advisory Board
Leslie Epstein
Robert Pinsky
Derek Walcott
Rosanna Warren
Leslie Epstein, Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott, Rosanna Warren
Editorial Assistants
Emma Chastain
Lindsay Guth
Helen Leigh
Onna Solomon
Tess Taylor
Katherine Hollander
Aryn Hardy
Andrew Wilson
Lauren Kruskall
Janet Foxman
Emma Chastain, Lindsay Guth, Helen Leigh, Onna Solomon, Tess Taylor, Katherine Hollander, Aryn Hardy, Andrew Wilson, Lauren Kruskall, Janet Foxman
Contributing Editors
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
Fred Marchant
Fiona McCrae
Gail Mazur
Joe Osterhaus
Dzvinia Orlowsky
Liam Rector
George Scialabba
Tom Sleigh
Sue Standing
Rosanna Warren
Oksana Zabuzhko
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, Fred Marchant, Fiona McCrae, Gail Mazur, Joe Osterhaus, Dzvinia Orlowsky, Liam Rector, George Scialabba, Tom Sleigh, Sue Standing, Rosanna Warren, Oksana Zabuzhko