AGNI 76
Contents
Editor's Note
It Wants to Find You
Fiction
Ghost Geographies
by Tamas Dobozy
Trappings
The Future
by David Huddle
Tics
That Doubling Is Always Observed
Essays
Go Tell Your Father
House of the Faun, Pompeii
by Matt Donovan
My Apple Tree, My Brightness
Autography 4
Breakfront
by Dinah Lenney
Able and Baker: Not Invented Here
The Mozart of the Talmud
Shadowboxing: Occupational Hazards
Poetry
“It Is No Secret Here”
“The People Begin to Understand”
“The Strictest Order Must Be Preserved”
Ovid on the Poor Economy of Overgrazing
by Amy Beeder
“Prodigious fine land, but subjects to wets and unhealthiness”
by Amy Beeder
Pantoum on a Theme from Ginsberg
by Jan Clausen
Duties
Silence
Workshop World
17 Dollars
Ode to Wasting Time and Drawing Donatello’s David
Was Not the Right Stuff for Their Wars
by Rolf Haufs
Translated from the German by Christopher Middleton
Famished
by Susanne Kort
Toilets
by Susanne Kort
When the Light Fails
by Sydney Lea
The Hatfields and McCoys
The Button
The Last Hour
by Sharon Olds
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My Father’s Soul Departing
by David Wojahn
Ode to FOXP2
by David Wojahn
Timeshare, Florida
by David Wojahn
Fiery significations—of place, of past, of self. Artist Lesley Dill’s striking figurations set the tone of engaged encounter. Nonfiction by Jeffrey Mehlman, John Kinsella, Dinah Lenney, Susan McCallum-Smith, and others. Stories by David Huddle, Wendy Rawlings, Tamas Dobozy, and Victoria Lancelotta; poetry from Sharon Olds, Eamon Grennan, David Wojahn, Patricia Lockwood, with translations by Christopher Middleton, Hoyt Rogers, and Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough.
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
Sarah Huener
Paula Simone Campbell
Catherine Flora Con
Leanne Hoppe
Sarah Huener, Paula Simone Campbell, Catherine Flora Con, Leanne Hoppe
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