AGNI 75
Contents
Editor's Note
Essays
Poetry
Lamb
At Nero’s Circus
by Ciaran Berry
Mutiny
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
“Here are the children, tall as knee-high grass . . .”
by Adam Day
“The bishop moves like a bass drum . . .”
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
Sven Birkerts
Founding Editor
Askold Melnyczuk
Askold Melnyczuk
Senior Editor
William Pierce
William Pierce
Fiction Editor
William Giraldi
William Giraldi
Poetry Editor
Lynne Potts
Lynne Potts
Asst. Poetry Editor
Sumita Chakraborty
Sumita Chakraborty
Reviews Editor
Rachel Mennies
Rachel Mennies
Prose Editor
Jennifer Alise Drew
Jennifer Alise Drew
Readers
Jessica Keener (fiction)
Mary O'Donoghue (fiction)
Erin Trahan (poetry)
Kim Adrian (nonfiction)
Jessica Keener (fiction), Mary O'Donoghue (fiction), Erin Trahan (poetry), Kim Adrian (nonfiction)
Advisory Board
Leslie Epstein
Robert Pinsky
Derek Walcott
Rosanna Warren
Leslie Epstein, Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott, Rosanna Warren
Editorial Assistants
Lisa Malykhina
Laura Goldstein
Artem Derkatch
Bryan Coller
Natasha Hakimi
Rachel Jacobs
Mimi Lipson
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
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