AGNI 64
Contents
Editor's Note
Fiction
The Three Veils of Ibn Oraybi
by Vincent Czyz
Report to Ito Sadohara, Head of Tuna, Uokai, Ltd., to the Ministry of Commerce, Regarding Recent Events in the Domestic Fishing Industry
The Cow of the Ocean
by Rick Moody
Essays
Florence of Paterson
Shadowboxing: On the Failures of Victory
Crucibles: Report on a Report
Poetry
Monsoon
by Kevin Bowen
Fumbling with a Field Guide on the Back Arroyo Trail
by Matt Donovan
Patio Lull with House Guest and View
by Matt Donovan
Thumb Trick
by Matt Donovan
Memory, a Snowfall
Second Canto of the Invisible Terraces
The Tenor on Horseback
Remembering My Mother’s Childhood
A Portfolio of British and Irish Poems
Editor's Note
Poetry
Five poems: Sympathy, Sympathy, Sympathy, Sympathy, Sympathy
Drive
The Present Writer
by Nick Laird
Twain
ès el senyor Gaudí!
Dunt
by Alice Oswald
Armistice
How Long, O Lord, Will You Leave Them?
Changing ecologies of information, fragmented certainties. Sets up a vigorous call-and-response between fictions of eerie dislocation (Michael Mejia, Rick Moody, and Vincent Czyz) and essays of interrogation and witness—by William Pierce, Lia Purpura, Joel Brouwer, Wendy Rawlings, and others. Poets like Campbell McGrath, Christopher Middleton, Matt Donovan, and Leslie Wheeler are buttressed by a stylistically singular portfolio of British and Irish poetry edited by Kathryn Maris and Maurice Riordan of Poetry London magazine. A portfolio of visual art by Leslie Sutcliffe uses the logic of likeness as a basis for reassembly and restoration.
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
Beth Woodcome
Rachel DeWoskin
Beth Woodcome, Rachel DeWoskin
Editor-at-large
Jennifer Stroup (Jennifer Alise Drew)
Jennifer Stroup (Jennifer Alise Drew)
Advisory Board
Leslie Epstein
Robert Pinsky
Derek Walcott
Rosanna Warren
Leslie Epstein, Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott, Rosanna Warren
Editorial Assistants
Chris Lisieski
Lindsay Guth
Helen Leigh
Aryn Hardy
Tess Taylor
Sumita Chakraborty
Johanna Smith
Beth Romano
Katherine Hollander
Janet Foxman
Chris Lisieski, Lindsay Guth, Helen Leigh, Aryn Hardy, Tess Taylor, Sumita Chakraborty, Johanna Smith, Beth Romano, Katherine Hollander, 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