AGNI 71
Contents
Editor’s Note
Essays
The Knife Handler
The Drowning Lifeguard
by Mike Scalise
The Lightning-Rod Man: The Migraine Headache as Heuristic Tool
by Paul West
Poetry
After the Battle of Long Island, the Battle of Pell’s Point
Evening in the Window
Van Gogh’s First Sunday Sermon
by Matt Donovan
Elegy with Mistakes All through It
by Matt Donovan
“No crying, calling out, complaining . . .”
Translated from the Russian by James Stotts
Seven Chants, A War Cry
Angels Unawares
selections from Akeldama
Like Heart’s Desire
How Deep Is the River
by Kirk Nesset
Men Falling Out of the Sky
Solitude in Hotels
Grandpa’s Spells
In the Egyptian Wing of the Museum
The Medium
Fr. 2 FGE [Epitaph for Those Fallen at Euripus]
by Simonides
Translated from the ancient Greek by Kelli Boyles
Fr. 9 FGE [Epitaph for Those Fallen with Leonidas]
by Simonides
Translated from the ancient Greek by Kelli Boyles
Gutter Life
by Daniel Tobin
Conversations
An Interview with Donald Hall
Detonations and responses. The pressure of consequences public and private moves through fiction by Tom Bissell, Carolyn Cooke, Marjorie Sandor, and others. It turns lyrical in work by Charles Simic, Major Jackson, Kathleen Graber, and Melissa Green, and flares up surprisingly in essays by Paul West, Lia Purpura, Lynne Sharon Schwartz, and Alex Lemon. The issue also includes a career-spanning interview with Donald Hall and a portfolio of artist Ellen Driscoll’s strikingly engaged installations.
| 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 | Rachel Mennies | ||
| Ani Gjika | |||
| Bekah Stout | |||
| Vaughn Watson | |||
| Indu Ohri | |||
| Jenny Peng | |||
| Chiara Scully | |||
| Rebecca van Laer | |||
| Allison Amaro | |||
| Joanna Chae | |||
| 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 |