AGNI 69
Contents
Editor’s Note
Essays
High Compression: Information, Intimacy, and the Entropy of Life
What Will the Soul Do for Solace Then?
by Dinah Lenney
Crucibles: Intimations of Randomness
Poetry
Combine
by Adam Day
Why
by Stephen Dunn
Winter in the Garden
Fire Season
by Ian Harris
Shadow of Two
by Eva Hooker
The Last Man Who Knew Everything
The Divine Right of Caprice
Adjacent to the way
Striking the Set
Chernobyl Eclogue
Art Feature
Where Were You When the Moon Was Full?
by Aldwyth
In Her Hands: The Art World Goes to War (essay)
Radical compressions and striking explosions. Brian Christian proposes a radical theory of art as information, and Senior Editor Bill Pierce riffs out further connections, while artist Aldwyth (as elucidated by fellow-artist Rosamond Purcell) offers uncannily apt illustration. Lovers’ beds abound—in fiction by Gary Amdahl, Michael Mejia, and Margo Berdeshevsky—and poets, including Adam Day, Garrett Keizer, Eva Hooker, and Deborah Pease, find what’s fresh and disturbing in the nothing new that is under the sun.
| Editor | Sven Birkerts | ||
| Founding Editor | Askold Melnyczuk | ||
| Senior Editor | William Pierce | ||
| Sr. Fiction Editor | William Giraldi | ||
| Fiction Editors | Jessica Keener | ||
| William Charles Delman | |||
| Poetry Editors | Lynne Potts | ||
| Jay Deshpande | |||
| Asst. Poetry Editor | Sumita Chakraborty | ||
| Advisory Board | Leslie Epstein | ||
| Robert Pinsky | |||
| Derek Walcott | |||
| Rosanna Warren | |||
| Editorial Assistants | Cassie Schmitz | ||
| Renee Emerson | |||
| Trenton Pollard | |||
| Indu Ohri | |||
| Hank Backer | |||
| Nikki Bazar | |||
| Maia Rauschenberg | |||
| Mara Birkerts | |||
| 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 (1949-2007) | |||
| George Scialabba | |||
| Tom Sleigh | |||
| Sue Standing | |||
| Oksana Zabuzhko |