AGNI 86
Contents
Editor's Note
Derek Walcott at BU: A Sorting
Fictions
Bending the Map
by Amber Caron
Discharge Planning
by Perri Klass
How the Mind Can Exist in a Physical Universe
Winterlight
by Kent Nelson
The Influence of the Sixties on the Seventies
I Want My Car
A Little Bit of Wickedness
by Liza Ward
Poetry
Walking the Ruined City
Gueule de Bois
Bloodworm Baltimore French Fry
Costumes
by Bruce Cohen
Rudolph’s Tears
Winter Documentary
Driving Through Utah, Listening to the Radio
by Sophie Klahr
Bossa Nova
I Shall Name the Worms
Strawberry Moon
Crying in the Cab Away from You
Dog Days
by Bern Mulvey
While She Sleeps
by John Rybicki
The Melancholy of Shadows at Dawn
by Ravi Shankar
The Utopian
by Ravi Shankar
Magpie
You Heard It Here First
Eulogy for the Gladioli
by Eva Skrande
Fisherman
by Eva Skrande
Bear
by Maggie Smith
Walking the Dog
by Maggie Smith
Wild
by Maggie Smith
“Love Is Blue”
Still Life: Stevens’s Wallet on a Key West Hotel Dresser
by David Wojahn
Art Feature
Thought Samples from the Memory of a Drawing Man (essay)
by Mensur Demir
Translated from Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian by Mirza Purić
Visible Cities
by Mensur Demir
The diverging scales of public and private. Standing back and then homing in, architect and former graffiti artist Mensur Demir builds a space for poems by David Wojahn, Peter Balakian, Sophie Klahr, Natalie Shapero, and many others. Ruminations on shoplifting, Spoleto, and the cultural nuances of eating (by Donald Quist, Chad Davidson, and Jung Hae Chae) play against fraught interiors in the fiction of Julianna Baggott, Kent Nelson, and Perri Klass, to name just some.
Editor
Sven Birkerts
Sven Birkerts
Founding Editor
Askold Melnyczuk
Askold Melnyczuk
Senior Editor
William Pierce
William Pierce
Poetry Editor
Sumita Chakraborty
Lynne Potts
Sumita Chakraborty, Lynne Potts
Fiction Editor
William Giraldi
Mary O'Donoghue
William Giraldi, Mary O'Donoghue
Nonfiction Editor
Jennifer Alise Drew
Jennifer Alise Drew
Blog Editor
David Ebenbach
David Ebenbach
Social (Twitter)
Rachel Mennies
Rachel Mennies
Newsletter Director
Alison Lanier
Alison Lanier
Marketing/social (facebook)
Daniel Pritchard
Daniel Pritchard
Manuscript Reader
Brian Burt
Brian Burt
Galley Editors
Lindsay Guth
Beth Romano
Lindsay Guth, Beth Romano
Advisory Board
Leslie Epstein
Robert Pinsky
Derek Walcott
Rosanna Warren
Leslie Epstein, Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott, Rosanna Warren
Editorial Assistants
Audrey Poe
Aanchal Narang
Leone Brander
Anna Hundert
Meagan Reilly
Christian Wessels
Efpraxia Sapuridis
Audrey Poe, Aanchal Narang, Leone Brander, Anna Hundert, Meagan Reilly, Christian Wessels, Efpraxia Sapuridis
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
E.C. Osondu
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, E.C. Osondu, Lia Purpura, George Scialabba, Tom Sleigh, Sue Standing, Oksana Zabuzhko