AGNI 70
Contents
Editor’s Note
And What Is Writing
Essays
Here Were the Two of Us at Exactly This Moment
Walking: An Essay on Writing
from Alphabets of Desire & Sorrow: A Book of Imaginary Colophons
by Norman Lock
Poetry
The Delegates
One-Act
by Arthur Brown
The Bullfrog
by Arthur Brown
Elegy with a Beaker
Let Go
I Foresee the Breaking of All That Is Breakable
by John Estes
Beautiful Monsters
In the Garden of the Ghosts of the Garden
by Shane McCrae
The Call: Missionary Society Newsletter
by Holly Pettit
The Peach Will Forgive Me
by Eric Rawson
The Blood of Libraries
Translated from the Slovenian by Ana Jelnikar and Joshua Beckman
Prologue/Afterword
Still Werdend
Her Rats
Residence
B is for Bedroom
by Ravi Shankar
Barter
by Ravi Shankar
Three
Swarm
The Foot of Gardens
by Kieron Winn
At My Grandparents’ House
by Kieron Winn
In Memoriam: Michael Mazur, 1935-2009
Essays
In Memoriam Michael Mazur, 1935–2009
In Memoriam Michael Mazur, 1935–2009
In Memoriam Michael Mazur, 1935–2009
In Memoriam Michael Mazur, 1935–2009
In Memoriam Michael Mazur, 1935–2009
In Memoriam Michael Mazur, 1935–2009
In Memoriam Michael Mazur, 1935–2009
In Memoriam Michael Mazur, 1935–2009
In Memoriam Michael Mazur, 1935–2009
by David Rivard
In Memoriam Michael Mazur, 1935–2009
In Memoriam Michael Mazur, 1935–2009
In Memoriam Michael Mazur, 1935–2009
by John Skoyles
In Memoriam Michael Mazur, 1935–2009
by Tom Sleigh
Celebrations and skewerings. The writing life laid bare in fiction by Ken Kalfus, Giles Harvey, and Melissa Pritchard; essays by Peter LaSalle and Norman Lock; and poems by Victoria Chang and Alexander Long. Other work by Simon Armitage, Tomaz Salamun, Maxine Scates, Mary O’Donoghue, Douglas Bauer, Mimi Schwartz, and many others. Plus a mind-stretching art feature and cover by Joomi Chung, and a special section in which writers and fellow artists commemorate the life of painter Michael Mazur.
| Editor | Sven Birkerts | ||
| Founding Editor | Askold Melnyczuk | ||
| Senior Editor | William Pierce | ||
| Sr. Fiction Editor | William Giraldi | ||
| Fiction Editor | Jessica Keener | ||
| Poetry Editor | Lynne Potts | ||
| Asst. Poetry Editor | Sumita Chakraborty | ||
| Advisory Board | Leslie Epstein | ||
| Robert Pinsky | |||
| Derek Walcott | |||
| Rosanna Warren | |||
| Editorial Assistants | Jenny Peng | ||
| Hank Backer | |||
| Vanesha Pravin | |||
| Indu Ohri | |||
| Rachel Mennies | |||
| 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 |