AGNI 87
Contents
Editor's Note
“This Just In—”: Notes from the Couch and the Writing Desk
Fictions
His Happiest Day Ever
Lot 14
The Missing Part
by Lise Haines
A Portrait of the Composer as a Young and Then Not-So-Young Temp
by Tim Horvath
Barrows
Like We Did
How Many Times?
by Micah Stack
Lover :
A Habitable Pose
by Jenny Xie
Essays
The Bungalow
Where the Grass Grows Wild
Lying
Poetry
Comparative Study
by Ralph Black
My Father Is Still Dead
by Rick Bursky
Freddy Krueger
Dissplacement
Spring Indigo
Without
African Funeral, Anjou
Perfect Match
from How to Eat Your Love
Backfire
Josef Albers
by Gail Mazur
I Consider My Father’s Brain Scan as Jazz Measure
by Kyle McCord
My Father Considers His Brain Scan as Lunar Disaster
by Kyle McCord
Still Life with Judas Goats
by Sandra Meek
Still Life with Zodiac Boat
by Sandra Meek
Four Marys
Preamble with Pilgrimage Inside
Rorschach #1
different room
2005: The Alleghenies Laid Bare
Blue Goose Hollow
What we leave behind us, and how we face the new. Art and cover by Paul Katz vividly embody the impulse to recast materials and signs. Stories by Stephen Dixon, Victoria Lancelotta, and Shahriar Mandanipour look at how we preserve and renew, while reflective essays by Emilia Phillips, Laura Gill, and Michael Stein resonate with poems of loss and remembrance by Gail Mazur, Cate Lycurgus, Rick Bursky and many others.
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
Daniel Pritchard
Daniel Pritchard
Manuscript Reader
Brian Burt
Brian Burt
Galley Editors
Beth Romano
Beth Romano
Social (Facebook)
Effie Sapuridis
Effie Sapuridis
Editorial Assistants
Audrey Poe
Aanchal Narang
Leone Brander
Grace Yun
Meagan Reilly
Christian Wessels
Bart Kuipers
Lauren Peat
Audrey Poe, Aanchal Narang, Leone Brander, Grace Yun, Meagan Reilly, Christian Wessels, Bart Kuipers, Lauren Peat
Advisory Board
Leslie Epstein
Robert Pinsky
Rosanna Warren
Leslie Epstein, Robert Pinsky, Rosanna Warren
Contributing Editors
Lucie Brock-Broido
John J. Clayton
William Corbett
Stuart Dischell
Sharon Dunn, ed. emerita
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, 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