AGNI 102

AGNI 102

Crisis and talismans. The threaded objects of Lia Purpura front an issue intent on noticing, holding, and putting forward. Siew Hii, Carl Phillips, and Denise Duhamel (in poetry) and Donald Quist and Rilla Askew (in nonfiction) confront the wiliness of false narrative. Stories by Scholastique Mukasonga (translated by Mark Polizzotti) and Niamh Mac Cabe, with poems by Megan Fernandes and Fereshteh Sari, trace the veins of complicity. And stories by Subhravanu Das and Reyumeh Ejue, with poems by Brenda Hillman, Kimberly Quiogue Andrews, and Peter Balakian, discover honest, tenuous shelter.

Editor’s Note Fiction Essays Hybrid Poetry Art Feature

Editor’s Note

by William Pierce

Fiction

East River

by Lorea Canales

Translated from the Spanish by Lia Galván

The Purple House

by Subhravanu Das

The Accident (from Fog)

by Gianluca Didino

Translated from the Italian by Johanna Bishop

What It Is

by Reyumeh Ejue

The Sundial Pilgrimage

by Niamh Mac Cabe

Cyprien the Mutwa

by Scholastique Mukasonga

Translated from the French by Mark Polizzotti

Everything Must Go

by Roberto Ontiveros

The Submariner Signs Off

The Garden

by David Serafino

Essays

Convergence

Outro

by Sven Birkerts

she didn’t let her tell her that she loved her . . .

by Mary Cappello

Exercises in Style

by Shelbi Church

What Is Given

The Tongue Remembers

by Maria B. Olujic

As the Crow Flies

Core Samples, or, Experiments with Days

Storycatcher

by Donald Quist

Emmerich’s Wounds

by Nils Schniederjann

Hybrid

Betel Nut Babe

by Suqi Karen Sims

Michigan

by Angela Woodward

Poetry

The Order of Things

by Kimberly Quiogue Andrews

The Sixth Combat

by Kimberly Quiogue Andrews

Night of the Iguana

by Peter Balakian

Picture Postcard from a Hole in the Garden

How Senior Living Lets Us Know Someone Has Died

Flight of Ideas

by Denise Duhamel

My Mother Becomes a Pond

by Leila Farjami

Crisis

by Megan Fernandes

The war headline says

by Megan Fernandes

This Is a Fish

Thin Ice

from They pass through, and see through us

by Christine Guinard

Translated from the French by Susanna Lang

First Love

Florida Is a Place on Earth

Florida Is a Place on Earth with Very Broad Open-Records Laws

The Boys’ Room

by Brenda Hillman

Let Me Put It This Way

by Katherine Indermaur

Interior Scroll

by Jenny Molberg

Salvage

by Susan Nguyen

So Much of This Life

by Susan Nguyen

Prime

by Cindy Juyoung Ok

Power

by Carl Phillips

The Fall of Rome

by Carl Phillips

by Fereshteh Sari

Translated from the Persian by Kaveh Bassiri

Breakfast

by Adam Spiegelman

The Guessing Game

Knife for Decisively Cutting Off Floating Clouds

Translated from the Chinese by Chen Du and Xisheng Chen

Sometimes Someone Is Only a Shadow

Translated from the Chinese by Chen Du and Xisheng Chen

Art Feature

Selected project notes (essay)

Threadings