AGNI 39

AGNI 39

Fiction

“That’s Why I Love Her So & Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, I Want the World to Know” or Why Jackie Wilson Died in Silence
The Second World
The Eternity Bird

Essays

How to Speak with the Dead? A Poet’s Notebook
Translated from the Spanish by Monica Bruno
from Philip Guston
The High Place of American Poetry: The Problem With Witness
from Borderlands: 27-39
A Catfish for Your Thoughts: Ukrainian Literature at the Turning Point
Water
The Building with a Crown
Translated from the Serbian by Charles Simic
The Sealed Envelope

Poetry

Gabriela’s Elqui
Nights Mutable as Water Revise Themselves Into the Shape of Our Extravagant Past
Manners
from Inferno: Canto XXXIV
Translated from the Italian by Robert Pinsky
Philips Street, Andover
100 Years of Youth
Translated from the Ukrainian by Michael M. Naydan
Everybody Has a Heart, Except Some People
His Apprentice
You Can’t Always Get What You Want
Spirit Papers
Blue Ridge Blue
From a Letter I Did Not Receive
Paradiso
The Fire
Debris
Guyton Place
It’s Top Forty in My Head
Sentence
Boat-Builder
The Lover
Hectic
Anaphora
Dear Editor Kirby, Even in This Facility
Little Death
Rushing the Gates of Empirical Gardens
My Father Receives the First Visitation
The Upsidedown Waterfall
The Hanoi Market
Trueblood’s Blues
Apokatastasis
At a Certain Point
It’s Difficult
Melissa (from Byways)
Precepts
Translated from the French by Marilyn Hacker
Boraxo
A Handful of Bees
fromRose Window (or Prosettes)
Alzheimer’s
After the News
Apollo to the Athletes
The Story of Crucifixion
I Don’t Want a Son
Prophecy
Translated from the French by William Louis-Dreyfus and Molly Peacock
The Alley
Translated from the French by William Louis-Dreyfus and Molly Peacock
Whisper of Agony
Translated from the French by William Louis-Dreyfus and Molly Peacock
Sky
Translated from the Polish by Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanagh
Week in Valdivia
Translated from the Spanish by Carolyne Wright
Mrs. Biswas Breaks Her Connection With Another Relative
Norwegian Spruce

Conversations

An Interview With Leslie Epstein

Reviews

The Thinnest, Whitest Blonde of All
Articulate Survival as Generosity in Four Books of Poems
Mr. Cogito’s Tragic Grandeur
Utopian Turtletop: Lynne McMahon’s Devolution of the Nude
The Degenerate Frontier