AGNI 86
Contents
Editor's Note
Derek Walcott at BU: A Sorting
Fiction
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
Essays
Later
The Great Meal
Mutatis Mutandis
Thought Samples from the Memory of a Drawing Man
By Mensur Demir
Translated from the Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian by Mirza Purić
Thieves
By Donald Quist
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
Walking the Dog
By Maggie Smith
Bear
By Maggie Smith
Wild
By Maggie Smith
“Love Is Blue”
Still Life: Stevens’s Wallet on a Key West Hotel Dresser
By David Wojahn
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.