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 12
By Nin Andrews
Confession 1
By Nin Andrews
Chapel
After
Poetry
The Mystical Body
Lulluby
By Maggie Dietz
November
By Maggie Dietz
Prayer for the Child I Keep Losing
By Jenn Givhan
Beginner’s Mind
New Year
THERE WERE TIMES for Suffering
Translated from the Polish by John and Bogdana Carpenter
Tough-guy talk
By Bob Hicok
If I had merely said, She is good, would you have listened?
By Bob Hicok
Red-Tails’ Nest
Domestic
Second Goshen
Goshen
Christ in the Garden of Olives
At the Carnavalet and the Cognacq-J
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 Test
By Jim Powell
The Moon in the Family Tree
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
The Geese Return
By John Witte
Oh Well
By John Witte
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.