AGNI 74
Contents
Editor’s Note
The Golden Book
Poetry
Variation on a Theme by Sor Juana (with Raquel Rodriguez Cruz)
by Gary Amdahl
Translated by Raquel Rodriguez Cruz
The Alley of Our Childhood
by Teresa Cader
Aesop’s Crows
by Teresa Cader
Rilke Said I and I and Meant Anybody
by Bruce Cohen
An Early November Meditation
Talking to Milosz
The Difference between Art and Artifice
I Sat in My Little Boat
Ewigkeit
by Kevin Ducey
Christmas Dinner
Quarter Horse Curse
It Was a Splendid Mind
by Amy Gerstler
from Phantom Hour
by James Meetze
I Want This Till the End
If Then
Years Later
Strangeness
by Brian Swann
Vertigo
Art Feature
Introduction to the Art Feature
by Jody Servon and Lorene Delany-Ullman
Saved
by Jody Servon and Lorene Delany-Ullman
Conversations
Sifting for fresh versions of the known. An art portfolio of odd objects, served up by Jody Servon and Lorene Delany-Ullman, captures something of the larger idiosyncrasy of this issue, which features, among other offerings, poetry by Amy Gerstler, Sherman Alexie, Carol Ann Davis, and Rainer Maria Rilke (from the German and from the French); fiction by Helen DeWitt and Rachel Swearingen; a generous array of nonfiction by Sarah Braunstein, Jonathan Wilson, Robert Boyers, and many others, as well as a conversation with the startlingly unusual Yahia Lababidi.
| Editor | Sven Birkerts | ||
| Founding Editor | Askold Melnyczuk | ||
| Senior Editor | William Pierce | ||
| Fiction Editor | William Giraldi | ||
| Poetry Editor | Lynne Potts | ||
| Asst. Poetry Editor | Sumita Chakraborty | ||
| Reviews Editor | Rachel Mennies | ||
| Editor at Large | Jennifer Alise Drew | ||
| Readers | Jessica Keener (fiction) | ||
| Mary O'Donoghue (fiction) | |||
| Erin Trahan (poetry) | |||
| Kim Adrian (nonfiction) | |||
| Advisory Board | Leslie Epstein | ||
| Robert Pinsky | |||
| Derek Walcott | |||
| Rosanna Warren | |||
| Editorial Assistants | Sarah Weinberg | ||
| Calvin Olsen | |||
| Bryan Coller | |||
| Artem Derkatch | |||
| Valerie Sarron | |||
| Natasha Hakimi | |||
| Rachel Jacobs | |||
| Mimi Lipson | |||
| 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 | |||
| George Scialabba | |||
| Tom Sleigh | |||
| Sue Standing | |||
| Oksana Zabuzhko |