AGNI 44

AGNI 44

Poetry by Chinua Achebe, Joyce Carol Oates, Teresa Cader, Jane Hirshfield, Oksana Zabuzhko, Marilyn Hacker, Dzvinia Orlowsky, Claire Malroux, and Tony Hoagland; fiction by Jill McCorkle, Peter Ho Davies; Susanna Kaysen on rereading The Magic Mountain, Martha Collins on translating Viet Nam, and Seamus Heaney on Charles Simic.

FictionEssaysPoetryReviews

Fiction

Safe
by Peter Ho Davies
from A Book of Measure: Fifth Circumference
by Michael Franco
from Carolina Moon
by Jill McCorkle

Essays

Strong Stories
by Joseph Bruchac
Translating Viet Nam
by Martha Collins
Shorts for Simic
by Seamus Heaney
Living on Top
by Marcie Hershman
Poetry, History and the Love of Oranges
by Jerzy Jarniewicz
On Rereading The Magic Mountain
by Susanna Kaysen
Epic Temptations
by Khaled Mattawa
Mandelstam’s Web
by Tam Lin Neville
A Descriptive Analysis of Bank Notes
by Wulf Rehder

Poetry

Hitchhiking: A Prayer for the End of Time
Translated from the Ukrainian by Anderson Wing
Agostinho Neto
by Chinua Achebe
Flying
by Chinua Achebe
Pine Tree in Spring
by Chinua Achebe
Absinthe
by Nuar Alsadir
Breakfast
by Nuar Alsadir
Man on an Island
by Nuar Alsadir
Donne’s the One
by Linda Bamber
Grief
by Calvin Bedient
The Book of the Dead Man
by Marvin Bell
On the Rooftop Students
by David Blair
A Week of Poems at Bennington
by Robert Bly
With a Friend at Bennington
by Robert Bly
The Phoenix
by Bruce Bond
from At the Edge of Being: 6, 9, 10
by Teresa Cader
I, I, I
by Hayden Carruth
Balloons Drinks at the Frontier Tavern
by Michael Catherwood
Dialogue for the Left and Right Hand
by Steven Cramer
Field Analyzer
by Stephen Cushman
Two Freeze to Death Despite Experience
by Stephen Cushman
The Week in Advance
by Mark DeCarteret
Last Date
by Chard DeNiord
Improving the Golden Rule
by Diana Der-Hovanessian
Drafts of “The Two”
by Stuart Dischell
Agnes
by Terri Ford
Street Scenes: Sunday Evening
by Marilyn Hacker
Twelfth Floor West
by Marilyn Hacker
Pages
by Mark Halliday
The Midnight Hydroplane Race
by Henry Hart
Matter and Spirit
by Jane Hirshfield
Beauty
by Tony Hoagland
Just Spring
by Tony Hoagland
An Acacia Sapling
by Sugawara Katsumi
Translated from the Japanese by Arthur Binard
Milk and a Hamburger
by Sugawara Katsumi
Translated from the Japanese by Arthur Binard
Rape Blossoms
by Sugawara Katsumi
Translated from the Japanese by Arthur Binard
The Wide World
by Steve Kronen
Description of Emily Dickinson
by Andrew LaBonte
from Byways: III. The Wrong Bed—Moira
by James Laughlin
Trees of Flame
by Claire Malroux
Translated from the French by Marilyn Hacker
Nyctalopia
by Jack Martin
Dear Edward Lear I Love Your Birds
by Jeredith Merrin
Tequila
by Álvaro Mutis
Translated from the Spanish by Forrest Gander
O Crayola!
by Joyce Carol Oates
The Bullfrogs
by Joyce Carol Oates
The Thin Rain
by Joyce Carol Oates
Wieliczka Salt Mine, Southern Poland
by Dzvinia Orlowsky
Jeffrey on a Leash
by M. C. O’Sullivan
From the Devotions
by Carl Phillips
Calypso, Penelope
by Alan Shapiro
All Souls’ Day
by Maurya Simon
Palimpsest
by Sue Standing
True Story
by Philip Stephens
The River
by Nguyen Quang Thieu
Translated from the Vietnamese by Martha Collins and Nguyen Quang Thieu
Lily
by Robert Thomas
Drafts of “Noon”
by Rosanna Warren
Art Pepper
by Joshua Weiner
A Photograph I Saw of a Father and Son
by Greg Williamson
Colophon
by Dean Young

Reviews

In Lucrezia Borgia’s Chair
by Alex Chisholm
Diana Der-Hovanessian’s Selected Poems
by Ellen Davis
Carl Phillips’s Cortège and Alan Shapiro’s Mixed Company
by Kathy Fagan
The Century as Experiment: Reading Poems for the Millenium
by Loss Pequeño Glazier
Inclusions
by Thom Gunn
“Here I Am, Lord”
by George Packer
Two Reviews
by Alston Russell