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
Prologue/Afterword
Still Werdend
Her Rats
Residence
B is for Bedroom
by Ravi Shankar
Barter
by Ravi Shankar
Three
Swarm
At My Grandparents’ House
by Kieron Winn
The Foot of Gardens
by Kieron Winn
The Blood of Libraries
Translated from Slovenian by Ana Jelnikar and Joshua Beckman
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
Sven Birkerts
Founding Editor
Askold Melnyczuk
Askold Melnyczuk
Senior Editor
William Pierce
William Pierce
Sr. Fiction Editor
William Giraldi
William Giraldi
Fiction Editor
Jessica Keener
Jessica Keener
Poetry Editor
Lynne Potts
Lynne Potts
Asst. Poetry Editor
Sumita Chakraborty
Sumita Chakraborty
Advisory Board
Leslie Epstein
Robert Pinsky
Derek Walcott
Rosanna Warren
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
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
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