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
“The People Begin to Understand”
“The Strictest Order Must Be Preserved”
“It Is No Secret Here”
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
Ode to Wasting Time and Drawing Donatello’s David
17 Dollars
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 | ||
| 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 | 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 |