AGNI 82
Contents
Editor’s Note
Double Take
Essays
D-range
A-range
The Years and The Years
In a Woman’s Kingdom
Smithereens
Analog
Fiction
Desire and Other Isms
By Heather Abel
The Deuce
Is All Good Structure in a Winding Stair?
The White Hat
By Ihab Hassan
The Fur Coat
Son of a Star, Son of a Liar
Our First Couple
Theft
Gropius Falls
Poetry
Confession 12
By Nin Andrews
Confession 1
By Nin Andrews
Poor Words
By Pierluigi Cappello
Translated by Todd Portnowitz
September
By Pierluigi Cappello
Translated by Todd Portnowitz
Chapel
After
Poetry
The Mystical Body
November
By Maggie Dietz
Lulluby
By Maggie Dietz
Prayer for the Child I Keep Losing
Beginner’s Mind
New Year
THERE WERE TIMES for Suffering
By Julia Hartwig
Translated by John and Bogdana Carpenter
The Force and the Sweetness
By Julia Hartwig
Translated by John and Bogdana Carpenter
If I had merely said, She is good, would you have listened?
By Bob Hicok
Tough-guy talk
By Bob Hicok
Domestic
Red-Tails’ Nest
Second Goshen
Goshen
At the Carnavalet and the Cognacq-J
Christ in the Garden of Olives
Habitual
By Anna Journey
Real Estate
Rotation
The Ghosts in My Eye at Mizen Head
581 Bed B, Remembering Mark Fisher
Philip Guston
By Gail Mazur
The Moon in the Family Tree
By Jim Powell
The Test
By Jim Powell
Specimen
By Laura Romeyn
Trieste
By Umberto Saba
Translated by Paula Bohince
Briar and Rose
Posterity
Seagull Eating a Crayfish Alive
By Alpay Ulku
The Tethys Sea
By Alpay Ulku
Vilnius.Archeology
By Judita Vaičiūnaitė
Translated by Rimas Uzgiris
from Vasa Pieces
The Geese Return
By John Witte
Oh Well
By John Witte