AGNI 83
Contents
Editor’s Note
Birkerts and I
Fiction
Mornings and Evenings
Khati’ah
Duende
by Noy Holland
In the Rare Case
Rose Ivoire
The Children of New Orleans
The Plate-Spinner
by Steve Stern
Essays
Friendship, Deception, Writing: Within and Beyond Plato’s Lysis
Choreograph
The Dress Form
A Common Skin
by Anna Journey
Home
by Tyler Mills
Poetry
After Sappho: The Drill
Giacometti, Nine Figures
Elegy with a Gold Cradle
Pale Lieutenant at the Empire Ball
Ode to a Mockingbird
Limestone and Rain
by David Daniel
Questions for the Mariner
Translation from the Origins of Time
Recuerdo
Lower Animals
The Doubles
The Summer My Mother Said She Was Going to Drown Herself
At the Grave
Plaice
The Reckoning Reasoning
Some Postures to the Rock
by Sydney Lea
Fat Worm
Northern Wind
Ghazni
The Rooted Oar
Translated from the Italian by Taije Silverman and Marina Della Putta Johnston
The Swallows
Translated from the Italian by Taije Silverman and Marina Della Putta Johnston
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The Coconut-Water Man
Pastoral
Refraction and Its Ordinary Material
Inheritance
An Anatomical Study Concerning the North American Whitetail
by Casey Thayer
Bawlmer Crabs
by Casey Thayer
Adding One
by Sarah Viren
Catharsis with Mildred Pierce
by Sarah Viren
Montage with Mangos, Volcano, and Flooded Streets
Art Feature
Diary of the Future
by Lara Baladi
Vodka-Chamomile: cocktail for a revolution (essay)
by Lara Baladi
Reading the coffee grounds. Lara Baladi’s striking emblems of private and public divination set the interrogating mood: the issue features, in an array of genuine riches, poems by Barbara Helfgott Hyett, David Daniel, Cyrus Cassells, Hailey Leithauser, and also Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan in a kind of “poets’ dialogue” (translated by Kai Maristed); essays by Tyler Mills, Marya Hornbacher, and William Eaton; and stories by Steve Stern, Noy Holland, Stephen Dixon, and Melissa Pritchard.
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
Lindsay Guth
Beth Romano
Emily Pineau
Lindsay Guth, Beth Romano, Emily Pineau
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
Advisory Board
Leslie Epstein
Robert Pinsky
Derek Walcott
Rosanna Warren
Leslie Epstein, Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott, Rosanna Warren
Editorial Assistants
Alison Lanier
Hannah Jansen
D. Eric Parkison
Jason Villemez
Damilola Aderibigbe
Emily Frisella
Alison Lanier, Hannah Jansen, D. Eric Parkison, Jason Villemez, Damilola Aderibigbe, Emily Frisella
Contributing Editors
Lucie Brock-Broido
John J. Clayton
William Corbett
Stuart Dischell
Sharon Dunn, ed. emerita
Anne Germanacos
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
Lucie Brock-Broido, John J. Clayton, William Corbett, Stuart Dischell, Sharon Dunn, ed. emerita, Anne Germanacos, 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