AGNI 79
Contents
Editor’s Note
Ten Broad Swipes at the Problem of Structure in the Essay (and Perhaps Other Genres as Well)
Fiction
National Treasure
The Fencers
by Ihab Hassan
California Statutes Concerning Defrauding an Innkeeper
Rockhounds
by Ann Pancake
Vinni Pukh
by Matt Sailor
Essays
Lost in London
by Elvis Bego
On Practice, School Buses, Hummingbirds, Rumi, and Being Led
Things We Saw and Bought and Lost
An Arrangement of Skin
by Anna Journey
Longing and Other Dimensions
Poetry
Arana Gulch
The Bear
A Long Marriage
Confessio Inimicus
by Adam Houle
A Paper Hive Earns No Quarter
by Adam Houle
Horse
Distortions on Caius
Distortions on Boorde 1
At the Crystal Palace, London
Monkey Lab
by Kevin Prufer
Giving It Back
by Kevin Prufer
Women Around the Table
The Psalmist Talking
Translated from the Slovenian by Tomaž Šalamun and Michael Thomas Taren
Kitchen
by Joseph Spece
Grieving, Sidpa Bardo
A Walk Among the Yachts
Art Feature
Funk Morphologies
Out of pieces is a world made and understood. Wangechi Mutu’s stunning, disturbing images set the tone for an investigation of canny and uncanny assemblage. Essays by, among others, Carol Ann Davis and Anna Journey; fiction by Ihab Hassan, Matt Sailor, and Ann Pancake; translations of Horace and Callimachus, and poems by Kevin Prufer, Patricia Hooper, and many others.
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