AGNI 80
Contents
Editor’s Note
The Nightcrawler, Joan Miró
Fiction
What Makes the Dawn Breathable
by E. C. Belli
Forgiveness
The Assam Incident
City of Words
by Tony Eprile
Other Bodies
Eudaimonia
Thinking in Third Person
What Could’ve Been?
Drip, Drop, Drippity-Drop
Translated from the Italian by Martha Cooley and Antonio Romani
Beautiful Ground
by Josh Weil
Essays
Castle Hill
by K. E. Duffin
A Flicker of Animal, a Flank
by Anna Journey
Shadowboxing: Eyeless in Gaza and Ukraine
Poetry
Burial Instructions—Abject & Fuming
Slum Drummers, Nairobi
Nests I
by Tara Bray
Desire
by Colin Cheney
Ghazal for Finally Leaving What Has Already Left
by Meg Day
Beads of Sweat
by Nick Flynn
Circling
Shooting a Slingshot With My Father
The Same Father
Pier Pug
Forensics of Wheatbelt Silo Design
Flowering Bitterroot
Matinee
To an Ash on a Crackling Log
Blessing in Disguise
Snow Drones
Offices
Community Pool / Love Poem
The Field the Drive-In Was In
“You loved the tragedy factory of me. . .”
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Portrait of a Sixteenth-Century Etching of the Body
by Martin Rock
Poem for the Unknown
by Martin Rock
Natural Disaster
Contrapunctus (#1)
The Narrows: Lake George, 1969
Song (of the Pharmaceutical) of the Song
Art Feature
Sojourner
Scenes from an Odyssey: Oscar on the Road (essay)
Unsettling whimsy, gravity, and grace: Photographer Rosamond Purcell’s portfolio— the debut of her “Oscar” series— provides the visual key signature for our most symphonically ambitious gathering of voices yet. Fiction by Beth Bosworth, Josh Weil, Chitra Divakaruni, and Tony Eprile; poetry by Nick Flynn, Erica Funkhouser, Peter Balakian, and Jill McDonough; essays by Anna Journey and K. E. Duffin; and much more. Superb translations of Virgil, Raúl Zurita, Théophile Gautier, Antonio Tabucchi, and others bring striking accents to the weave.
| Editor | Sven Birkerts | ||
| Founding Editor | Askold Melnyczuk | ||
| Senior Editor | William Pierce | ||
| Asst. Poetry Editor | Sumita Chakraborty | ||
| Poetry Editor | Lynne Potts | ||
| Fiction Editor | William Giraldi | ||
| Prose Editor | Jennifer Alise Drew | ||
| Readers | Jessica Keener | ||
| Mary O'Donoghue | |||
| Erin Trahan | |||
| Brian Burt | |||
| Galley Editors/Events | Lindsay Guth | ||
| Beth Romano | |||
| Social Media | Sumita Chakraborty | ||
| Rachel Mennies | |||
| Marketing | Daniel Pritchard | ||
| Steven LaFond | |||
| Newsletter Director | Alison Lanier | ||
| Editorial Assistants | Emily Frisella | ||
| Alison Lanier | |||
| Will Harrison | |||
| Brian Han | |||
| Anna Ziering | |||
| Emily Pineau | |||
| Rachel Feingold | |||
| Jannell McConnell Parsons | |||
| Advisory Board | Leslie Epstein | ||
| Robert Pinsky | |||
| Derek Walcott | |||
| Rosanna Warren | |||
| 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 |