AGNI 78
Contents
Editor’s Note
Semblance: Something Else Again
Fiction
The Personal History of Margaret Elizabeth Neilson Newton
Grief Bacon
Breaking and Entering
Brazil
The Petal Farmers
The Testosterone Wars
by Paul West
Essays
On Coincidence, Collapse, and Textual Bridges
Boredom’s Afterlife
Poetry
Fountain
Ladder
That the Bones That Thou Hast Broken May Rejoice
Forever
Folly
Neoplatonic
Serpent, Witness, Cinematographer
Tucotuco
Landscape in Ink
Porches, Twin Cities
Dear John
After Wang Wei
At the Table
Evening
by Mark Irwin
A Tiny Cage,
by Mark Irwin
on waking
apricots
To the Women of My Family (reprinted from the collection Figures in a Landscape)
by Gail Mazur
Où Sont les Neiges d’Antan
by Gail Mazur
To the Charles River
by Gail Mazur
The Summer of the Collies
In the Country, I Found a Knit of Branches in a Cave Shape
Knuckleheads
by Bern Mulvey
Ex
by Bern Mulvey
What They Believed
You Made Me an Offer I Could Not Refuse
A Theory of Violence
Caged Words in a Couple
by Ben Purkert
Des Peres (Zoological Fantasy)
Longing and Dreading
Song of the Scythe
by Brian Swann
To a Nashi Pear
by Greg Wrenn
Art Feature
Remembering the Future
by Matt Hope
Tributes to Gail Mazur
Essays
A Tribute to Gail Mazur
by Robin Becker
A Tribute to Gail Mazur
A Tribute to Gail Mazur
by Maggie Dietz
A Tribute to Gail Mazur
by David Rivard
Rules—and ruins—of attraction. From Nicola Waldron’s memoir of the summons of first love, to Peter LaSalle’s unsettling fiction of literary erotics, to J. D. Daniels’s story of jealous transgression, Erica Funkhauser’s poems channeling John Berryman’s devastations, and the light of Vermeer refracted by poet Circe Maia. A generous suite of tributes to Gail Mazur, along with new work by the poet. The breadth of literary imaginings is counterpointed, and underscored, by the eerily witty precision of Matt Hope’s drawings of the future as remembered: strange ruins, new rules. Much, much more.
| Editor | Sven Birkerts | ||
| Founding Editor | Askold Melnyczuk | ||
| Senior Editor | William Pierce | ||
| Fiction Editor | Lynne Potts | ||
| Asst. Poetry Editor | Sumita Chakraborty | ||
| Prose Editor | Jennifer Alise Drew | ||
| Readers | Jessica Keener | ||
| Mary O'Donoghue | |||
| Erin Trahan | |||
| Proofreaders | Lindsay Guth | ||
| Beth Romano | |||
| Social Media | Sumita Chakraborty | ||
| Rachel Mennies | |||
| Marketing | Daniel Pritchard | ||
| Steven LaFond | |||
| Newsletter Director | Alison Lanier | ||
| Advisory Board | Leslie Epstein | ||
| Robert Pinsky | |||
| Derek Walcott | |||
| Rosanna Warren | |||
| Editorial Assistants | Alison Lanier | ||
| Leanne Hoppe | |||
| Brian Han | |||
| Jannell McConnell Parsons | |||
| Rachel Feingold | |||
| Johanna Pittman | |||
| 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 |