AGNI 65
Contents
Editor’s Note
The Thinker in the Garden
Fiction
The Man Who Knew Beckett
by David Gates
Search Party
Mendoza-Burke’s Reform
from The Widening
by Carol Moldaw
Split Up on a Dark Sad Night, Agreeing It Was Best
Poetry
Suite pour les amours perdus
Version of the Stalin Epigram
House and Highway
While an Old Clock Rang the Hour
Smoke
Plywood
Selected Exercises in Case Law II
Translated from the Norwegian by Roger Greenwald
A Wood Thrush
Barnegat Light
from Hallelujah Blackout
by Alex Lemon
Waking
Diamond
Lyle: Concentration
In the Air
I Keep Imagining Mahler
Oil-Soaked Scoters
Goats, or Something
At the Pool
by Tom Sleigh
A Page from the Nightbook
Translated from the Swedish by Michael McGriff and Mikaela Grassl
In the Kingdom of Insecurity
Translated from the Swedish by Michael McGriff and Mikaela Grassl
Landscape with Suns
Translated from the Swedish by Michael McGriff and Mikaela Grassl
Migraine
Vast spans, subtle scapes. Tom Burckhardt’s stunning art feature, its images ranging from American urban to the Arctics and Asias of the imagination, announces the range of this issue. Richard Tillinghast’s real-life Istanbul jostles Kenneth Wong’s fictional Rangoon and Tomas Tranströmer’s lyric Swedish meditations. David Gates’s voice-fugue channels Samuel Beckett, and Kim Addonizio moves the spirit of Chet Baker through her lines of longing and loss. Stories by Peter LaSalle, Edith Pearlman, Magdalena Tulli, Vince Passaro, and others. Poets include Stuart Dischell, Karl Kirchwey, and Debra Nystrom; essayists, Lia Purpura, Marie Mutsuki Mockett, and William Pierce.
| Editor | Sven Birkerts | ||
| Founding Editor | Askold Melnyczuk | ||
| Senior Editor | William Pierce | ||
| Fiction Editors | William Giraldi | ||
| William Charles Delman | |||
| Jessica Keener | |||
| Poetry Editors | Beth Woodcome | ||
| Rachel DeWoskin | |||
| Editor-at-large | Jennifer Stroup (Jennifer Alise Drew) | ||
| Advisory Board | Leslie Epstein | ||
| Robert Pinsky | |||
| Derek Walcott | |||
| Rosanna Warren | |||
| Editorial Assistants | Lindsay Guth | ||
| Ashley McHugh | |||
| Taylor Altman | |||
| Jacqueline Buddie | |||
| David Macey | |||
| Marianna Pease | |||
| Melanie Dahl | |||
| Kaelan Smith | |||
| Beth Romano | |||
| Tom Jungerberg | |||
| Anastasia Kolenda | |||
| 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 | |||
| Oksana Zabuzhko |