AGNI 77
Contents
Editor’s Note
Notebook: Style
Fiction
My Beautiful Life
Medium Tough
Fetch
Tarping the Wheat: The Wages of Sin
Jackrabbit, Lizard, Rattlesnake, Saguaro
Oakland Gomorrah
Poetry
Near the Border
Waiting for the Hummingbird
Karl Lagerfeld Meets Voltaire and the King of Prussia in the Hallway
The Fast Friendship of Voltaire and the King of Prussia
Leda, Later
At first I didn’t see the contours of the problem.
by H. L. Hix
The Making of a Prophet
Lady Xoc
by Dana Levin
The Importance of the Right Punctuation
“Cold prickles my scalp”
Translated from the Russian by Deborah Marshall and Douglas Penick
Myodesopsia
by Carol Moldaw
One Too Many Samurai Movies
by Jordan Smith
The best is slowly dropping to sleep
Translated from the Danish by Susanna Nied
New Faces of Belfast
Between the Landwehr Canal and the Spree
Translated from the Lithuanian by Rimas Uzgiris
The Riverbed
by David Welch
The body eclectic—artist Fabio D’Aroma’s expressively cartoonized bodies and physiognomies catch the flavor of an issue featuring Lynne Sharon Schwartz’s surgery memoir, as well as meaty and muscular fiction from Tiphanie Yanique, David Hernandez, E. C. Osondu, and Melanie Rae Thon; essays by Lia Purpura and Elvis Bego; poetry by Dana Levin, Jordan Smith, Peter Balakian, and Carol Moldaw; and much more, including translations from the Lithuanian, French, Japanese, Danish, and Russian.
| 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 | Carissa Halston | ||
| Readers | Jessica Keener (fiction) | ||
| Mary O'Donoghue (fiction) | |||
| Erin Trahan (poetry) | |||
| Advisory Board | Leslie Epstein | ||
| Robert Pinsky | |||
| Derek Walcott | |||
| Rosanna Warren | |||
| Editorial Assistants | Alison Lanier | ||
| Julie Moon | |||
| Leanne Hoppe | |||
| Johanna Pittman | |||
| Sarah Huener | |||
| Paula Simone Campbell | |||
| Catherine Flora Con | |||
| Jannell McConnell Parsons | |||
| 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 |