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”
“It Is No Secret Here”
“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
Workshop World
Silence
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
Toilets
By Susanne Kort
Famished
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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Timeshare, Florida
By David Wojahn
Ode to FOXP2
By David Wojahn
My Father’s Soul Departing
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.