AGNI 94
Contents
Editor’s Note
A Few Thoughts on Truth and Fiction
Poetry
The Burning of Athena’s Temple by Xerxes
by Amy Beeder
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
She Saw She Was (a Ghost)
by K. Henderson
As a Woman
by K. Henderson
Mixed Girl Graves
by K. Henderson
Mona
First Gun
by Colin Pope
Called Back
by Bruce Smith
Rob or something, or Of course the sitter had to have a son
Old Skin
Hawk Hymn
Futures: A Portfolio of Work in Translation
Editor’s Note
Fiction
Essays
Poetry
Mandelstam Street and Other Apocryphal Territories
Translated from the Spanish by Cynthia Steele
Kozukata (The Road Never to Be Taken)
by Shuri Kido
Translated from the Japanese by Tomoyuki Endo and Forrest Gander
Bread, Hashish, and the Moon
Translated from the Arabic by Rana Bitar and Robert Bensen
The Solitary Cinerary Flower Ignites
Translated from the Spanish by Luciana Erregue
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 |