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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
California Statutes Concerning Defrauding an Innkeeper
Rockhounds
Vinni Pukh

Essays

Lost in London
On Practice, School Buses, Hummingbirds, Rumi, and Being Led
Things We Saw and Bought and Lost
An Arrangement of Skin
Longing and Other Dimensions

Poetry

Arana Gulch
The Bear
Epigram 34
Translated from the Ancient by Christopher Childers
The Family
Translated from the Spanish by Stephen Kessler
A Long Marriage
Ode 1.38
Translated from the Latin by Christopher Childers
Ode 3.13
Translated from the Latin by Christopher Childers
Confessio Inimicus
A Paper Hive Earns No Quarter
Distortions on Caius
Distortions on Boorde 1
At the Crystal Palace, London
Monkey Lab
Giving It Back
Women Around the Table
Zone B
Translated from the Slovenian by Tomaž Šalamun and Michael Thomas Taren
The Psalmist Talking
Translated from the Slovenian by Tomaž Šalamun and Michael Thomas Taren
Kitchen
Grieving, Sidpa Bardo
A Walk Among the Yachts

Art Feature

Funk Morphologies
AGNI 79

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.

  EditorSven Birkerts
  Founding EditorAskold Melnyczuk
  Senior EditorWilliam Pierce
  Fiction EditorLynne Potts
  Asst. Poetry EditorSumita Chakraborty
  Prose EditorJennifer Alise Drew
  ReadersJessica Keener
   Mary O'Donoghue
   Erin Trahan
  Galley Editors/EventsLindsay Guth
   Beth Romano
  Social MediaSumita Chakraborty
   Rachel Mennies
  MarketingDaniel Pritchard
   Steven LaFond
  Newsletter DirectorAlison Lanier
  Advisory BoardLeslie Epstein
   Robert Pinsky
   Derek Walcott
   Rosanna Warren
  Editorial Assistants Alison Lanier
   Leanne Hoppe
   Brian Han
   Jannell McConnell Parsons
   Rachel Feingold
   Johanna Pittman
  Contributing EditorsLucie 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
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