AGNI 88
Contents
Editor’s Note
“Caress the Detail”: Thoughts on Repair
Fiction
Bonus Miles
by Bipin Aurora
Nothing Happened
Scabs
Be Cool, Eddie
by Gary Gildner
Providence down at The Terrys
by David Goguen
The Statue
by Bruce Lawder
The Empire of the Singers, or A Desolate Place
by Bruce Lawder
The Pillar
by Bruce Lawder
Our Last Stand
Finding Faith
by Chika Unigwe
Poetry
“For you, goddess of war and wisdom”
Translated from the ancient Greek by Brooks Haxton
Parable of the Moss Piglet
Dishing with the Shah of Iran
An Inadequate Solution to a Persistent Problem
Owl
Homme au bain
After Matsubayashi’s Horses of Fukushima
by Knar Gavin
Vulture
by Knar Gavin
Remorse
Late Elegy
A Vase on a Shelf
Sparrow
You remember. Remember?
Helen
Paxton’s Seamstress Addresses the Poet
With Calliope Music Wheezing from Car Radios
No Nose
by Eric McHenry
Martini Time
by Eric McHenry
Upright/Downright
Castine
by D. Nurkse
Letter from the End of Time
by D. Nurkse
O Is the Sound of Tragedy
To Paula Alive in the Future
Indiana
by Ira Sadoff
Broken Sonnet for the Universe
by Ira Sadoff
Goatface
Tenants
by Jane Wong
Not going gentle. An exuberance of colors by cover and portfolio artist Anne Neely introduces a market square of comedy and contemplation, unexpected narrative pathways, and an insistent push into unfamiliar locales, literal and figurative. The issue features poems by Ira Sadoff, D. Nurkse, Jane Wong, and two dozen others; inventive fiction of every stripe, including work by Valerie Sayers, Bipin Aurora, and John Biguenet; as well as essays and hybrid prose by Xujun Eberlein, Donald Morrill, Bonnie Friedman, and more.
| 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 | ||
| Newsletter Director | Alison Lanier | ||
| Marketing | Daniel Pritchard | ||
| Manuscript Reader | Brian Burt | ||
| Galley Editors | Beth Romano | ||
| Christian Wessels | |||
| Social (Facebook) | Effie Sapuridis | ||
| Editorial Assistants | Audrey Poe | ||
| Aanchal Narang | |||
| Leone Brander | |||
| Grace Yun | |||
| Lauren Peat | |||
| Zoe Stonetree | |||
| Bart Kuipers | |||
| Advisory Board | Leslie Epstein | ||
| Robert Pinsky | |||
| Rosanna Warren | |||
| Ha Jin | |||
| Contributing Editors | Lucie Brock-Broido | ||
| John J. Clayton | |||
| William Corbett | |||
| Stuart Dischell | |||
| Sharon Dunn, ed. emerita | |||
| Anne Germanacos | |||
| Marie Howe | |||
| Diana Der-Hovanessian | |||
| 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 |