AGNI 72
Contents
Editor’s Note
Booze Snow Cone with Crème de Menthe
Fiction
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
The Needle
Late Summer
Pricked Fingers
American Scene 1935
by Gail Mazur
Cat
Private Plane
Things Just Come
Not Yet
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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
Fiction
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 the 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 |