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AGNI 99

Contents

Editor's Note

The Uncanny Valley

Fictions

Burrowing Creatures
Greg's Emile

Essays

Owl: An Imaginary
Fifty Mothers
The Last Place I Saw Them: An Abecedarian

Poetry

For a Moment
Kapparot
Breathers
The Devouring Economy of Nature
from Alliterative Autobiography
from Guerra Cantos
Translated from Filipino by Ethan Chua
[Ulysses on Nausicaa's Island]
Translated from Catalan by Rebecca Simpson
Ulysses on the Island of Circe
Translated from Catalan by Rebecca Simpson
Journal for Pomegranates
Intermittent Water
Translated from Spanish by Yaccaira Salvatierra
Search
Translated from Spanish by Yaccaira Salvatierra
Nosotros
Against Rhetoric
For My Father and His Tender Heart

Art Feature

Muy peligroso / Very dangerous
The Accident Painter

To Never Have Risked Our Lives: A Portfolio of Central American and Mexican Diaspora Writing

Fictions
Camilla
Mud & Chiffon
Pizzle Flowers
The Invented Languages of Adela Arkani
All the Things We Hid
Poetry
“But there is no migrant crisis . . .”
“Inside me there’s a refugee . . .”
Homo naledi
Palestine Is Showing Us That Decolonization Is Not Abstract
"Awech at we alaj b'e noya"
Translated from Spanish into K'iche' by Wel Raxulew
"Esta carretera también es tuya mija"
"This highway is also yours my daughter"
Translated from Spanish by Gabriela Ramirez-Chavez
One Rabbit
Ode to Malignancy
CITY OF MEXICO-U.S. BORDER BUREAU OF VITAL STATISTICS
creation myth: chicana (1999)
The Lesson, But Not Yet, Not—
from Infernal Splendor
Translated from Spanish by Matthew Byrne
Apocalypses: Scenario #445-220
The Unwritten Rules of Animating Speedy Gonzales
Whenever I Say I'm Mexican
Aránzazu Hears One Final Prayer Before the Monsoon
Coyote-Girl Bantu
La Malinche Orders Chipotle
AGNI 99

All of our places remain. Contributors struggle with displacement and “home,” belonging and having to establish, resisting and being able to simply be. Partly devoted to a major new portfolio of writing from the Central American and Mexican diasporas, AGNI 99 unites around bewilderment and the force of clarity—discovering how we landed here and acknowledging where we stand. Geography extends beyond the folio, in poems by Mosab Abu Toha and Mercè Rodoreda (trans. Rebecca Simpson); fiction by Steven Archer and Urvi Kumbhat; essays by Lia Purpura and Marion Winik; and more. Diego Isaias Hernández Méndez, Guatemala’s “accident painter,” sets the vivacity and tumble right in front of us, on the cover.

Editors
Sven Birkerts, William Pierce
Senior Editor
Shuchi Saraswat
Senior Fiction Editor
Mary O'Donoghue
Senior Poetry Editor
Jennifer Kwon Dobbs
Poetry Editor
Jessica Q. Stark
Nonfiction Editor
George Estreich
Editor at Large
Julia Brown
Reviews Editor
Rachel Mennies
Blog Editors
Ryan Choi, Grace Singh Smith
Asst. Fiction Editors
Ben Black, Amber Caron, Ariel Courage
Assoc. Poetry Editor
Esteban Rodriguez
Asst. Poetry Editors
Dorsey Craft, Jenny George, Rachel Mennies
Newsletter Founder
Alison Lanier
Newsletter Introductions
Arielle Kaplan
Social (Facebook)
Effie Sapuridis
Blog Assistant
Cynthia Ayeza
Social (X)
Esteban Rodriguez, Arielle Kaplan
Social (Instagram)
Rachel Dillon
Editorial Assistants
Elizabeth Callahan, Cerissa DiValentino, Katie Priest, Louise Moran, Gene Wang, Ifeanyi Ekpunobi, Cynthia Ayeza
Founding Editor
Askold Melnyczuk
Advisory Board
Leslie Epstein, Ha Jin, Robert Pinsky, Rosanna Warren
Contributing Editors
Sumita Chakraborty, John J. Clayton, Stuart Dischell, Jennifer Alise Drew, 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
Typesetting & Design
Gian Lombardo / Quale Press
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