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AGNI 72

Contents

Editor's NoteFictionEssaysPoetryArt FeatureThe AGNI Portfolio of African Fiction

Editor's Note

Booze Snow Cone with Crème de Menthe
by Sven Birkerts

Fiction

The End of Old History
by Sarah Gaddis
The Boys’ School, or The News from Spain
by Joan Wickersham

Essays

All of a Dither
by Steven Church
Thrill Me: Barry Hannah in Memoriam
by William Giraldi
Shadowboxing: All Hail Private Manning!
by Askold Melnyczuk
The Bottom Line
by Carol Moldaw
Whitman, Lately
by Anton Vander Zee

Poetry

To my Lover, Concerning the Yird-Swine
by Julianna Baggott
Today, Worn and Broke’t, I Make Demands of my Lover
by Julianna Baggott
Caravaggio in Venice, 1591
by Annie Boutelle
Rome
by Peter Campion
The Dog Hermes
by Ioanna Carlsen
First the Meadow
by Carol Ann Davis
I Have Put Your Nest Where I Can See It
by Carol Ann Davis
Middle Age
by Adam Day
Ocean
by Martin Edmunds
Late Summer
by Jennifer Grotz
The Needle
by Jennifer Grotz
Pricked Fingers
by John Kinsella
American Scene 1935
by Gail Mazur
Cat
by Kate Northrop
Private Plane
by Kate Northrop
If Vallejo Hadn’t Died in Paris
by Idra Novey
Not Yet
by Stephen O’Connor
Things Just Come
by Stephen O’Connor
*
by Simon Perchik
The Streichholzhndler
by Donald Platt
Glenn Gould on the Telephone
by James Pollock
Northrop Frye at Bowles Lunch
by James Pollock
A Hundred Bones
by C. K. Williams
Codicil
by Kevin Young
Pilgrimage
by Kevin Young

Art Feature

Storyteller's Manuscripts
by Victor Ekpuk

The AGNI Portfolio of African Fiction

Editor's Note
Introduction to The AGNI Portfolio of African Fiction
by E. C. Osondu and William Pierce
Fiction
Anointed
by Doreen Baingana
Love Is Power, Or Something Like That
by A. Igoni Barrett
The Institute for Taxi Poetry
by Imraan Coovadia
from Whosoever Fears the Sea
by Dayo Forster
The Iron Gate
by Helon Habila
The Treasonable Parrot
by Ogaga Ifowodo
Sentencing for Six
by Chuma Nwokolo Jr
Homing
by Henrietta Rose-Innes
Saving Agu’s Wife
by Chika Unigwe
Somewhere Close to the Start of the Game (Foosball)
by Abdourahman A. Waberi
Translated from the French by David Ball and Nicole Ball
AGNI 72
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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
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