AGNI 87
Contents
Editor’s Note
“This Just In—”: Notes from the Couch and the Writing Desk
Fiction
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
Perfect Match
African Funeral, Anjou
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 Zodiac Boat
by Sandra Meek
Still Life with Judas Goats
by Sandra Meek
Four Marys
Rorschach #1
Preamble with Pilgrimage Inside
different room
Blue Goose Hollow
2005: The Alleghenies Laid Bare
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 | ||
| Founding Editor | Askold Melnyczuk | ||
| Senior Editor | William Pierce | ||
| Poetry Editor | Sumita Chakraborty | ||
| Lynne Potts | |||
| Fiction Editor | William Giraldi | ||
| Mary O'Donoghue | |||
| Nonfiction Editor | Jennifer Alise Drew | ||
| Blog Editor | David Ebenbach | ||
| Social (Twitter) | Rachel Mennies | ||
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| Galley Editors | Beth Romano | ||
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| Editorial Assistants | Audrey Poe | ||
| Aanchal Narang | |||
| Leone Brander | |||
| Grace Yun | |||
| Meagan Reilly | |||
| Christian Wessels | |||
| Bart Kuipers | |||
| Lauren Peat | |||
| Advisory Board | 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 |