AGNI 38

AGNI 38

FictionEssaysPoetryReviews

Fiction

The Petersburg Express
by Serge Iourienen
Translated from the Russian by Mary Ann Szporluk
Wintergreen
by John Keene
Bad Touch
by Joyce Carol Oates
Keer Avenue
by Maxine Rodburg
The Voice of Grass
by Valery Shevchuk
Translated from the Ukrainian by Yuriy Tarnawsky

Essays

The Things They Still Carry: A Post-Vietnam Story
by Michael Blumenthal

Poetry

Life Story
by Ai
Rubberneck
by Scott Anderson
A Declining Neighborhood
by Aliki Barnstone
Homeless
by Willis Barnstone
Violence
by Tony Barnstone
Small Inns and Lodges
by Margaret Barringer
The Park of the Monsters
by Judith Baumel
Of “Turning Away from the World”
by Michael Benedikt
Dialogue Before Death (1983)
by Nina Berberova
Translated from the Russian by Marsbed Hablanian and Diana Der-Hovanessian
Why So Many Forms?
by Alberto Blanco
Translated from the Spanish by John Oliver Simon
Holes in Our Speech
by Robert Bly
Geography Lesson
by Jay Boggis
Figure and Ground; or, Art Up to Its Neck in History
by Laurence Breiner
A Brief History of Asylum
by Lucie Brock-Broido
I Dont Know Who It Is, That Sings, Nor Did I, Would I Tell
by Lucie Brock-Broido
The Interrupted Life
by Lucie Brock-Broido
In Passing
by Ramola Dharmaraj
Starchild
by Thomas Sayers Ellis
Mixed Signals
by Alan Gilbert
Buffalo Jump, Blue Mounds, Minnesota
by Diane Glancy
Sweet Town
by Barry Goldensohn
elegy in blue and white
by Alvin Greenberg
Waunfawr and After / “The Collar Work Begins”
by Lee Harwood
Poet’s Chair
by Seamus Heaney
My Mother Also Ate
by Ha Jin
On a Pottery Figure of a Storyteller from the Eastern Han Dynasty (A.D. 25-220)
by Ha Jin
Today I Am Wearing a Suit
by Richard Jones
Night Melodies
by Attila Mohylyny
Translated from the Ukrainian by Michael M. Naydan
The Joke
by Dzvinia Orlowsky
Loss of Soul
by Deborah Pease
First Impression
by Scott Ruescher
Three Dreams: Masquerade, The Book of Paintings, My Nightmare
by Lloyd Schwartz
Dark Palace
by Jason Shinder
The Tower
by Charles Simic
Like a Dog, He Hunts in Dream
by Terese Svoboda
Two Self-Portraits: The Artist | The Scholar
by Brian Swann
In Heraclitus’s River
by Wisława Szymborska
Translated from the Polish by Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanagh
Time Enough
by Peter Viereck
Clytemnestra
by Oksana Zabuzhko
Translated from the Ukrainian by Lisa Sapinkopf and Oksana Zabuzhko

Reviews

Letter Read Inside Out
by Calvin Bedient
Two Sane Books Out of the Three
by Liam Rector
Critical Imperialism
by George Scialabba
The Alternative Continuum
by Joseph Torra