AGNI 50

AGNI 50

Interview with Derek Walcott on Omeros; poetry by Yusef Komunyakaa, Reginald Sheperd, Maggie Dietz, Joyce Peseroff, Eric McHenry, JSA Lowe, Reetika Vazirani; fiction by Thomas E. Kennedy, Mike Rosovsky, John Keene (winner of the AGNI 2000 John Cheever Award for Short Fiction), Victor Pelevin (translated by Byron Lindsey, winner of the AGNI 2000 William Arrowsmith Prize for Translation); nonfiction by Duff Brenna; Eric Chasalow on Mario Davidovsky; Jean Charbonneau on Patrick Modiano; Linda Lappin on Peter Brook; Diane Mehta on Jhumpa Lahiri.

FictionEssaysPoetryArt FeatureConversationsReviewsCollaborative Feature

Fiction

The Serial Lover
by Jaime Clarke
Invisible Country
by Joshua Harmon
from Four Seasons in April
by Tess Callahan James
An Outtake from the Ideological Origins of The American Revolution
by John Keene
from Beneath the Neon Egg: Autumn Wasps
by Thomas E. Kennedy
Loverboy
by Kevin Kennedy
The Greek Version
by Victor Pelevin
The Bedford Quarry
by Michael Rosovsky
Mannequin
by Gordon Weaver

Essays

Introduction to the Art Feature: Shellburne Thurber
by Gerry Bergstein
Sweet Fire: Memories of Andre Dubus
by Thomas E. Kennedy

Poetry

To Be Beautiful, the Nose Must Be Straight, and the Eyes Blue
by Calvin Bedient
The Tunnel of Love
by Mark Conway
Last Night
by William Corbett
Work
by William Corbett
from Critical Opalescence and the Blueness of the Sky: 1-4
by John de Stefano
Cerise
by Tory Dent
The Wrinkle Ode
by Maggie Dietz
The Yellow House, 1978
by Maggie Dietz
After
by Gary Duehr
The White Hat
by Yusef Komunyakaa
Ode To My Walkman
by J. S. A. Lowe
The Rain Has Made Me Late To Work
by J. S. A. Lowe
Plants Move
by Ross Martin
Dropped Thing
by Nancy Mitchell
The Lightning Field (II)
by Carol Moldaw
When You Ask Again
by Miriam O’Neal
Near the Animals
by Joyce Peseroff
Kneeling Self-Portrait
by Reginald Shepherd
Manifest
by Reginald Shepherd
To the Sun
by Tom Sleigh
Jeffersonian
by Mark Svenvold
A Quiet Death in a Small Red Closet
by Reetika Vazirani
What He Wrote on a Legal Pad
by Reetika Vazirani

Art Feature

Introduction to the Art Feature (essay)
by Gerry Bergstein
Abandoned Mill House: Room with Fireplace and Disintegrating Brick Wall
by Shellburne Thurber
George Houston House: Blue Wideboard Room with Two Windows and a Fireplace
by Shellburne Thurber
Gholson Homeplace: Entryway with Front Door
by Shellburne Thurber
McMullen Building: Wall Detail with Face
by Shellburne Thurber

Conversations

Nabokov: Letters to the American Translator
Translated by Maxim D. Shrayer
Just a Fisherman: Derek Walcott on Omeros
by Louis Bourne
Translated by Derek Walcott

Reviews

Alienation, Imagination, Secrets and Sins in Thomas E. Kennedy
by Duff Brenna
Patrick Modiano: Remembrance of Shadowy Things Past
by Jean Charbonneau
Mario Davidovsky: An Introduction
by Eric Chasalow
The Shadow Figure
by William Corbett
A Terrible Beauty is Born
by Valerie Duff
Majestic Juice
by Colette Kelso
A Wider Vision
by Linda Lappin
Opportunity Knocks
by Diane Mehta
Domestic Shadows: Poems from Home
by Miriam O’Neal

Collaborative Feature

Poetry
“Building”
by Eric McHenry
“Collision”
by Eric McHenry
“Witness”
by Eric McHenry
“Living Room”
by Eric McHenry
Art Feature
Building
by Gary G. Logan
Collision
by Gary G. Logan
Living Room
by Gary G. Logan
Witness
by Gary G. Logan