AGNI 75
Contents
Editor’s Note
Essays
Poetry
Lamb
Mutiny
by Ciaran Berry
At Nero’s Circus
by Ciaran Berry
“The Subject Is a Long One”
“The boss is a no-fly zone unless the boss misses numbers poorly performs”
The Minor Castles of Ireland
After 32 Weeks
“The bishop moves like a bass drum . . .”
by Adam Day
“Here are the children, tall as knee-high grass . . .”
by Adam Day
Adam’s Apostrophe to Eve
by Simon DeDeo
Macanudo
Coffin Bone
by Ansel Elkins
Fugitive’s Night Song
Book of Forget
Book of Memory
Bess
Bryce
by Sandra Meek
In the Backyard after the Dust Storm, Meditating on Paradise
by John Poch
Imagining Heaven
Crow Epistles
Original Love
Madagascar
by Sam Taylor
Go Blind
by Daniel Tobin
Robert Lowell: Image and Reflection
Editor’s Note
Essays
On Lowell
On Lowell
On Lowell
On Lowell
by Grey Gowrie
On Lowell
On Lowell
by Fanny Howe
On Lowell
On Lowell
by Gail Mazur
On Lowell
by Honor Moore
On Lowell
On Lowell
On Lowell
by Kevin Prufer
On Lowell
On Lowell
On Lowell
Art Feature
Robert Lowell: Image and Reflection
Trails of mastery, echoes of influence. This first issue of our 40th-anniversary year features a portfolio of photographs of Robert Lowell, never before published, by Robert Gardner, with responses and reminiscences from an array of writers, including C. K. Williams, Fanny Howe, Lloyd Schwartz, Claudia Rankine, Tom Sleigh, Gail Mazur, and Robert Pinsky. Other contents include stories by Edith Pearlman and Vince Passaro, poems by David Wagoner, Connie Voisine, Emilia Phillips, Adam Day, Bob Hicok, and Jill McDonough, and translated work by Osip Mandelstam, Yves Bonnefoy and Husch Josten.
| 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 | ||
| Prose Editor | 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 | Lisa Malykhina | ||
| Laura Goldstein | |||
| Artem Derkatch | |||
| Bryan Coller | |||
| 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 |