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AGNI 75

Contents
Editor’s NoteFictionEssaysPoetryRobert Lowell: Image and Reflection

Editor’s Note

Vertigo
by Sven Birkerts

Fiction

Cadiz, Missouri
by Robert Long Foreman
Coyote Road
by Lise Haines
Sooner or Later
by Husch Josten
Translated by Shelley Frisch
Final Instructions for My Disposal
by Vince Passaro
Stone
by Edith Pearlman
Buying and Selling
by Joan Silber

Essays

My Memories of Armenia
by Yves Bonnefoy
Translated from the French by John Naughton
On Pointing
by William Eaton

Poetry

Lamb
by Hadara Bar-Nadav
At Nero’s Circus
by Ciaran Berry
Mutiny
by Ciaran Berry
“The Subject Is a Long One”
by Mary Buchinger
“The boss is a no-fly zone unless the boss misses numbers poorly performs”
by Victoria Chang
The Minor Castles of Ireland
by Chad Davidson
After 32 Weeks
by Carol Ann Davis
“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
by Chard DeNiord
Coffin Bone
by Ansel Elkins
Fugitive’s Night Song
by Barry Goldensohn
Book of Forget
by Rebecca Hazelton
Book of Memory
by Rebecca Hazelton
A definition
by Bob Hicok
A poem of place
by Bob Hicok
Torn
by Bob Hicok
Bess
by Andrew Hudgins
“Heaviness, tenderness . . .”
by Osip Mandelstam
Translated by Eugene Serebryany
“In the yard at night . . .”
by Osip Mandelstam
Translated from the Russian by Eugene Serebryany
Coffee for Everyone
by Jill McDonough
Bryce
by Sandra Meek
Entra Tutto
by Emilia Phillips
In the Backyard after the Dust Storm, Meditating on Paradise
by John Poch
Imagining Heaven
by Alison Powell
Crow Epistles
by Doug Ramspeck
Original Love
by Doug Ramspeck
Madagascar
by Sam Taylor
Go Blind
by Daniel Tobin
R.I.P.
by Connie Voisine
Some Reflections
by David Wagoner

Robert Lowell: Image and Reflection

Editor’s Note
The Lowell Trail
by agnimag
Essays
On Lowell
by Christopher Benfey
On Lowell
by Peter Campion
On Lowell
by Robert Gardner
On Lowell
by David Gewanter
On Lowell
by Grey Gowrie
On Lowell
by Saskia Hamilton
On Lowell
by Fanny Howe
On Lowell
by Dana Levin
On Lowell
by Fred Marchant
On Lowell
by Gail Mazur
On Lowell
by Honor Moore
On Lowell
by Jacqueline Osherow
On Lowell
by Robert Pinsky
On Lowell
by Robert Polito
On Lowell
by Kevin Prufer
On Lowell
by Claudia Rankine
On Lowell
by Lloyd Schwartz
On Lowell
by Tom Sleigh
On Lowell
by Richard Tillinghast
On Lowell
by Joshua Weiner
On Lowell
by C. K. Williams
Art Feature
Robert Lowell: Image and Reflection
by Robert Gardner
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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
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