AGNI 53

AGNI 53

Fiction by Joyce Carol Oates, Carolyn Cooke, Chitra Divakaruni, and Lynne Sharon Schwartz; poetry by Agha Shahid Ali, James Tate, Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Cynthia Huntington, Martha Collins, Meg Kearney, Rodney Jack, and Michael Morse; nonfiction by Yuri Andrukhovych and Ploughshares founder DeWitt Henry; art by Joel Janowitz; and drafts of Randall Jarrell’s last poem.

FictionEssaysPoetryArt FeatureConversationsReviews

Fiction

Pawana
by J.-M. G. Le Clézio
Translated from the French by Christophe Brunski
The Sugar-Tit
by Carolyn Cooke
The Lives of Strangers
by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Me & Wolfie, 1979
by Joyce Carol Oates
Sightings of Loretta
by Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Field Work in Ukrainian Sex
by Oksana Zabuzhko
Translated from the Ukrainian by Halyna Hryn

Essays

Within Time, Down a River
by Yuri Andrukhovych
Translated from the Ukrainian by Michael M. Naydan
Introduction to Randall Jarrell’s Three Unpublished Poems
by Stephen Burt
Innocents Abroad
by DeWitt Henry
Oksana Zabuzhko’s Field Work in Ukrainian Sex
by Halyna Hryn
Efraín Huerta: Epitaph for the Crocodile
by Ilan Stavans
The Oneness of Music
by Wallis Wilde-Menozzi

Poetry

A History of Hell
by Agha Shahid Ali
Amichai 1924–2000
by David Biespiel
Listener of Bats
by Laure-Anne Bosselaar
Century
by Joel Brouwer
Detroit
by Joel Brouwer
History
by Joel Brouwer
Meadow
by Joel Brouwer
Canal Park Drive
by Stephen Burt
Untitled
by Paul Celan
Translated from the German by Franz Wright
Chorale
by Martha Collins
As the Crow Flies, So Will It Fall
by Miranda Field
Niagara Diary
by Miranda Field
On Translating Poems by American Authors
by Julia Hartwig
Translated from the Polish by Clare Cavanagh
I have accustomed these bones to grief
by Miguel Hernández
Translated by Ted Genoways
It tires me so much
by Miguel Hernández
Translated from the Spanish by Ted Genoways
My Blood Is a Road
by Miguel Hernández
Translated from the Spanish by Ted Genoways
Childhood’s Face
by Dennis Hinrichsen
Fiddler’s Convention
by Tony Hoagland
Heather and the Hair Color of Hope
by Tony Hoagland
Ghost
by Cynthia Huntington
Wildflower Sextet
by Rodney Jack
Drafts of the last poem he wrote, “From all the hands of the Hillbilly Ranch”
by Randall Jarrell
Five untitled prose poems
by Randall Jarrell
The Tree
by Randall Jarrell
Call Me Dr. Frankenstein
by Meg Kearney
The Little Sisters of the Sacred Heart
by David Kirby
Hannah Arendt
by Ewa Lipska
Translated from the Polish by Clare Cavanagh
First Sight
by James Longenbach
Fleet River
by James Longenbach
Over
by Michael McFee
Quo Journal: Civics
by Michael Morse
Quo Journal: Good Friday
by Michael Morse
Quo Journal: Waxwing Icarus
by Michael Morse
Happy as I Am
by Steve Orlen
Self-Portrait with Critic
by Ira Sadoff
Postcard from S.
by Charles Simic
The Bather
by Charles Simic
The Daughter of Snow
by Elizabeth Spires
The Florist
by James Tate
City Tree
by Michael Tyrell
Lullaby
by Michael Tyrell
The Stairs
by Solveig von Schoultz
Translated from the Swedish by Brita Stendahl
The Visit
by Solveig von Schoultz
Translated from the Swedish by Brita Stendahl
REVERSE Number Search for Chilly Evenings in Hell
by Terence Winch
Titian’s Salome
by Monica Youn
Smoke
by Adam Zagajewski
Translated from the Polish by Clare Cavanagh
The Poppies’ Fragile Glory
by Adam Zagajewski
Translated from the Polish by Clare Cavanagh
M
by Zafer Şenocak
Translated from the German by Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright
The Blinded
by Zafer Şenocak
Translated from the German by Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright
The Invisible Woman
by Zafer Şenocak
Translated from the German by Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright
Untitled
by Zafer Şenocak
Translated from the German by Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright

Art Feature

Joel Janowitz’s Three Paintings (essay)
by Gerry Bergstein
Jumping In
by Joel Janowitz
Letting Go
by Joel Janowitz
Light Play
by Joel Janowitz

Conversations

A Conversation with Oksana Zabuzhko
by Halyna Hryn

Reviews

Rose Alley
by Peter Campion
Montale’s Candor
by Dan Chiasson
Trading Letters and Riffs
by Diane Mehta