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AGNI 94

Contents

Editor's Note

A Few Thoughts on Truth and Fiction

Fictions

Five Pillars
They Run They Run
Rot

Essays

Elsewhere
In the Beginning
Utter, Earth

Poetry

The Burning of Athena’s Temple by Xerxes
Apparatus #519
Nomad Palindrome
Winter Pillow Book #3
Summers in Biddle City, 1999
The Shape of Biddle City
Meditation on an Authentic China
Red Sea
As a Woman
Mixed Girl Graves
She Saw She Was (a Ghost)
First Gun
Called Back
Rob or something, or Of course the sitter had to have a son
Old Skin
Hawk Hymn
Saint John of the Cross and John Dilg
Translated from Slovenian by Brian Henry
The Life of a Poet
Translated from Slovenian by Brian Henry

Art Feature

Máret Ánne Sara: An Appreciation (essay)
Foreign Fate

Futures: A Portfolio of Work in Translation

Fictions
The Men from Esc
Translated from Spanish by Sarah Booker
The Window
Translated from Hungarian by Eugene Brogyányi
The Saltworks
Translated from Arabic by Chip Rossetti
Natural History
Translated from Portuguese by Jeremy Alves da Silva Klemin
Mal Aria
Translated from German by Shelley Frisch
from 1,000 Coils of Fear
Translated from German by Priscilla Layne
Essays
Poetics of Islands
Translated from French by Kazim Ali
Brittle
Translated from Thai by Mui Poopoksakul
Selected Letters, 1870
Translated from French by Laura Nagle
Poetry
Fear
Translated from Arabic by Fady Joudah
Mine
Translated from Yoruba by Hussain Ahmed
He has begun to speak to me
Translated from French by Hélène Cardona
Noon
Translated from Chinese by Wang Ping
from Ædnan
Translated from Swedish by Saskia Vogel
Beached Whale
Translated from Swedish by Johannes Göransson
No Sunlight Reaches Down
Translated from Swedish by Johannes Göransson
The Blobs
Translated from Swedish by Johannes Göransson
The Feminist Depression
Translated from Swedish by Johannes Göransson
Mac Mac Chaos
Translated from Kannada by Maithreyi Karnoor
I approach the last bank
Translated from French by Todd Fredson
This inner time is mine
Translated from French by Todd Fredson
from Letters from a Kashmiri Boy
Translated from Hindi by Anita Gopalan
the river of time
Translated from Russian by James Stotts
The Eve
Translated from Italian by Johanna Bishop
Presbyopia
Translated from Chinese by Wang Ping
A Tree Whose Name I Don’t Know
Translated from Arabic by Marilyn Hacker
Botoxdiplomatique
Translated from Spanish by Jennifer Shyue
Kozukata (The Road Never to Be Taken)
Translated from Japanese by Tomoyuki Endo and Forrest Gander
Talk to Me, Nanna
Translated from Maltese by Ruth Ward and Immanuel Mifsud
The Imminences
Translated from French and Martinican Creole by Eric Fishman
Bread, Hashish, and the Moon
Translated from Arabic by Rana Bitar and Robert Bensen
The Solitary Cinerary Flower Ignites
Translated from Spanish by Luciana Erregue
Occupants
Translated from Italian by Hoyt Rogers
Of sunrays and human beings
Translated from Bulgarian by Tzveta Sofronieva
Girlfriend
Translated from Russian by Mary Jane White
Dead Reef
Translated from Filipino by Bernard Capinpin
Self-Portrait
Translated from Korean by E. J. Koh and Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello
The Last Bottle of Good Wine
Translated from Chinese by Wang Ping
The smell of fresh paint
Translated from Turkish by Kristin Dickinson
AGNI 94

Crossing thresholds. Nearly two years in the making, “Futures: An AGNI Portfolio of Work in Translation” is the largest folio in our five decades of publication, showcasing 35 translators and 37 writers of prose and poetry, from 21 languages. From homelands as far-flung as Martinique, Malta, and Thailand, from eras spanning a century and a half, these voices demand a reconsideration of the past as we collectively contemplate our future. The issue also features poetry by Ishion Hutchinson, Daniel Borzutzky, and Amy Beeder; fiction by Barbara Sutton and Che Yuen; essays by Isaac Yuen and Melissa Chadburn—and a call to conscience by Sámi visual artist Máret Ánne Sara.

Editors
William Pierce, Sven Birkerts
Assistant Editor
Shuchi Saraswat
Nonfiction Editors
Jennifer Alise Drew, Shuchi Saraswat
Poetry Editors
Jennifer Kwon Dobbs, Jessica Q. Stark
Fiction Editor
Mary O'Donoghue
Editor at Large
Julia Brown
Reviews Editor
Rachel Mennies
Blog Editor
Grace Singh Smith
Assoc. Poetry Editor
Esteban Rodriguez
Asst. Poetry Editors
Dorsey Craft, Jenny George
Asst. Fiction Editors
Ben Black, Amber Caron, Ariel Courage
Newsletter Director
Alison Lanier
Social (Facebook)
Effie Sapuridis
Blog Assistant
Cynthia Ayeza
Social (Twitter)
Ari Kaplan
Social (Instagram)
Ariel Courage
Editorial Assistants
Annaka Saari, David Brinson, Julia Pike, James Brookes, Nayereh Doosti, Melkon Charchoglyan, Zoe Stonetree, Taylor Arnette, Ari Kaplan
Founding Editor
Askold Melnyczuk
Advisory Board
Leslie Epstein, Ha Jin, Robert Pinsky, Rosanna Warren
Contributing Editors
Sumita Chakraborty, John J. Clayton, Stuart Dischell, Sharon Dunn, ed. Emerita, Anne Germanacos, Marie Howe, 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
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