AGNI 89
Contents
Editor's Note
Losing, Finding, Improvising
Fiction
If I Survive You
What the Canal Took
By David Hayden
Eyetooth
The Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi
The Silents
Essays
Now
By Jo Ann Beard
Call Yourself Alive
By Kelle Groom
Thanatophilia: A Travelogue
Cigarettes Coffee Alcohol
By Sam Kahn
The Guava Tree
Poetry
WhatsApp Message Analysis and Response
The Vow
Nat’l Watch & Diamond Exch.
More Than Watchmen at Daybreak
Spring Comes to the City of Lisbon
What an eye can see
Lines along the Shore
Hare at Dusk
Dance
The Closing
Two Ways
Garden
The Path of Names
By Susan Lewis
Gliss Aria
By Sharon Olds
Like a Sonnet
By Sharon Olds
Hyacinth Aria
By Sharon Olds
Mile Markers
By Calvin Olsen
Au Lait
Breakup Scenery
Landscape with Snow and Huddled Trees
By Rob Shapiro
Fish Like These
Unbroken
Forced Confession
Death in My Mouth
Volatile urgencies. Ethiopian cover artist Wosene Worke Kosrof brings an ancient alphabet into our jostling, electric present, infusing AGNI 89 with a directed energy. Jo Ann Beard’s lead-off essay simultaneously inspects and enacts the writing process as she thinks back on the stories her father told about war and loss. Poet Sharon Olds grapples with a mother’s legacy, and sings an aria to the unchanging glide at her own body’s core. Jonathan Escoffery writes about a cash-strapped high school teacher who humiliates himself for pay. And Sam Kahn watches the iPhone replace the cigarette. Eamon Grennan, Grace Singh Smith, Hebe Uhart, Cyrus Cassells, Shauna Barbosa, and many more.