AGNI 40

Editor’s Note Poetry Conversations Reviews Unsettling Narratives: Problems in Memoir and Biography

Editor’s Note

Send No Money Now

by Askold Melnyczuk

Poetry

Inamorata

by James C. Aboud

The Regulations

by James C. Aboud

The Weight of Things

by James C. Aboud

Carolyn Forché and the Poetry of Witness: Another View

by Peter Balakian

Flowing or Being

by Jorge Luis Borges

Translated from the Spanish by Robert Mezey and Richard Barnes

Luke XXIII

by Jorge Luis Borges

Translated from the Spanish by Robert Mezey and Richard Barnes

The Enigmas

by Jorge Luis Borges

Translated from the Spanish by Robert Mezey and Richard Barnes

Dear Mom

by Daniel Bosch

Erato in Hollywood

by Daniel Bosch

In Autumn

by Ellen Davis

Solace

by Ellen Davis

Make Costly Your Tears

by Tory Dent

Agvas in Aden

by Ellen Dudley

MOVING & ST RAGE

by Kathy Fagan

for Michael and Norma SF ’93

by Michael Franco

TOO BIG CANADER: A Travelogue

by Michael Gizzi

Layover

by Robert Hass

Notes on “Layover”

by Robert Hass

Renunciation

by Shelli Janikowski-Smith

I Fabricate Memories of High School in the Fifties

by Bob Kaven

The Gesture

Blue Skies

Sublunar

To Miss the Mark

Making Things Worse

Poemissimo

Cortegé

Focusing

About Hope and Dissipation

by Aleksander Ristović

Translated from the Serbian by Charles Simic

Simple Desire

by Aleksander Ristović

Translated from the Serbian by Charles Simic

Wine of Collusion

by Aleksander Ristović

Translated from the Serbian by Charles Simic

My Skull

by Ray Ronci

Aubade

by Mark Turpin

Last Hired

by Mark Turpin

Shithouse

by Mark Turpin

Behaviorists

by Charles H. Webb

In the War Zone

by Charles H. Webb

Conversations

A Conversation with James Carroll

by Sven Birkerts

A Conversation with James Carroll

by Alex Johnson

A Conversation with Susanna Kaysen

by Alex Johnson

Translated by Susanna Kaysen

Reviews

The Clarity of Pain Without Despair; Stuart Dischell’s Good Hope Road

by Joseph Lease

Trilce

by Mark Wagner

Unsettling Narratives: Problems in Memoir and Biography

Essays

from Highways and Dancehalls

by Diana Atkinson

After the Fact: Discoveries in the Writing of a Biographical Novel

by Douglas Bauer

Biography and the Dissolving Self: A Note

by Sven Birkerts

A Confession

by William Corbett

Falling

by Art Homer

A Long Way in the Dark

by Susan Johnson

How Eye Became I

by Alex Johnson

The Crimson Snake

by Honor Moore

In Search of André Breton

by Mark Polizzotti

Foreign States of Mind

by Linda Simon

Poetry

9 Ridge Road, from Remembering William Carlos Williams

by James Laughlin