AGNI 82
Contents
Editor's Note
Double Take
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
Essays
The Years and The Years
In a Woman’s Kingdom
Smithereens
Analog
Poetry
Confession 1
by Nin Andrews
Confession 12
by Nin Andrews
Chapel
After
Poetry
The Mystical Body
Lulluby
by Maggie Dietz
November
by Maggie Dietz
Prayer for the Child I Keep Losing
Beginner’s Mind
New Year
The Force and the Sweetness
Translated from the Polish by John and Bogdana Carpenter
THERE WERE TIMES for Suffering
Translated from the Polish 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
Goshen
Second 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
Briar and Rose
Posterity
Seagull Eating a Crayfish Alive
by Alpay Ulku
The Tethys Sea
by Alpay Ulku
from Vasa Pieces
Oh Well
by John Witte
The Geese Return
by John Witte
Art Feature
A-range (essay)
D-range (essay)
Range
Artist Rosaire Appel’s arresting portfolio, which she calls “an abstract comic,” makes a provocatively apt counterweight to a gathering of work that is enticingly specific and serious. AGNI 82 is detail-rich, with memoir essays by Susan McCallum-Smith and Sheila Kohler; a Woolfian meditation on Woolf by Andrea Barrett; and diversely concrete fictions by Scott Nadelson, Colin Fleming, Malerie Willens, and Ihab Hassan, to name a few. An especially full catalogue of poetry includes four translations, as well as work—some of it comic, yes—by Nin Andrews, Bob Hicok, Kathleen Graber, Joan Wickersham, and many others.
Editor
Sven Birkerts
Sven Birkerts
Founding Editor
Askold Melnyczuk
Askold Melnyczuk
Senior Editor
William Pierce
William Pierce
Asst. Poetry Editor
Sumita Chakraborty
Sumita Chakraborty
Poetry Editor
Lynne Potts
Lynne Potts
Fiction Editor
William Giraldi
Mary O'Donoghue
William Giraldi, Mary O'Donoghue
Prose Editor
Jennifer Alise Drew
Jennifer Alise Drew
Blog Editor
David Ebenbach
David Ebenbach
Readers
Brian Burt
Erin Trahan
Brian Burt, Erin Trahan
Galley Editors/Events
Lindsay Guth
Beth Romano
Lindsay Guth, Beth Romano
Social Media
Sumita Chakraborty
Rachel Mennies
Sumita Chakraborty, Rachel Mennies
Marketing
Daniel Pritchard
Steven LaFond
Daniel Pritchard, Steven LaFond
Newsletter Director
Alison Lanier
Alison Lanier
Editorial Assistants
Alison Lanier
Jessica Yung
Nathaniel Bolter
Jason Villemez
Emily Frisella
Alison Lanier, Jessica Yung, Nathaniel Bolter, Jason Villemez, Emily Frisella
Advisory Board
Leslie Epstein
Robert Pinsky
Derek Walcott
Rosanna Warren
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
Anne Germanacos
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
Lucie Brock-Broido, John J. Clayton, William Corbett, Stuart Dischell, Sharon Dunn, ed. emerita, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Anne Germanacos, 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, , ,