AGNI 72
Contents
Editor's Note
Booze Snow Cone with Crème de Menthe
Fictions
The Boys’ School, or The News from Spain
Poetry
To my Lover, Concerning the Yird-Swine
The Dog Hermes
First the Meadow
I Have Put Your Nest Where I Can See It
Middle Age
by Adam Day
Late Summer
The Needle
Pricked Fingers
American Scene 1935
by Gail Mazur
Cat
Private Plane
Not Yet
Things Just Come
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The Streichholzhndler
by Donald Platt
Glenn Gould on the Telephone
Codicil
by Kevin Young
Art Feature
Storyteller's Manuscripts
by Victor Ekpuk
The AGNI Portfolio of African Fiction
Editor's Note
Fictions
Anointed
Love Is Power, Or Something Like That
The Institute for Taxi Poetry
from Whosoever Fears the Sea
by Dayo Forster
The Iron Gate
by Helon Habila
The Treasonable Parrot
Sentencing for Six
Homing
Saving Agu’s Wife
by Chika Unigwe
Somewhere Close to the Start of the Game (Foosball)
Translated from French by David Ball and Nicole Ball
Anything-but-alphabetical Africa. A vividly variegated portfolio (in print and online) of fiction from the continent that Alexander miraculously overlooked, including new work from Henrietta Rose-Innes, Helon Habila, Doreen Baingana, and many others. The art feature and cover by Victor Ekpuk telegraph the sensuous immediacy and coded layers of this presentation. The issue also includes fiction by Joan Wickersham and Sarah Gaddis; poems by C. K. Williams, Kevin Young, Kate Northrop, and others; reflections on poetry by Carol Moldaw and Anton Vander Zee; as well as tributes to Barry Hannah by Sven Birkerts and William Giraldi.
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
Rachel Mennies
T. J. McLemore
Megan Cunniff
Robyn Kaufman
Chiara Scully
Lisa Hiton
Sarah Crossland
Elizabeth Howard
Rachel Mennies, T. J. McLemore, Megan Cunniff, Robyn Kaufman, Chiara Scully, Lisa Hiton, Sarah Crossland, Elizabeth Howard
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
Dana Levin
Fred Marchant
Fiona McCrae
Gail Mazur
Dzvinia Orlowsky
Lia Purpura
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, Dana Levin, Fred Marchant, Fiona McCrae, Gail Mazur, Dzvinia Orlowsky, Lia Purpura, Liam Rector (1949-2007), George Scialabba, Tom Sleigh, Sue Standing, Oksana Zabuzhko