AGNI 75
Contents
Editor's Note
Essays
On Lowell
On Lowell
Robert Lowell, Image and Reflection
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
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
“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
Madagascar
By Sam Taylor
Go Blind
By Daniel Tobin

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.