AGNI 56

AGNI 56

Our mammoth, 480-page Thirtieth Anniversary Poetry Anthology, containing superb original work by over 240 contributors to AGNI since 1972. From the most famous poets—Derek Walcott, Seamus Heaney, Wislawa Szymborska, Joseph Brodsky, Adrienne Rich, Odysseas Elytis, Rita Dove, Eugenio Montale, and Ai—to those you’ve never heard of but will soon wish you had, the work in this issue, the last to be edited by Founding Editor Askold Melnyczuk, comprises a milestone compendium of the energy and scope of American poets and translators over the past three decades.

Poetry

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Translated from the Russian by Judith Hemschemeyer
“Evening darkens until”
Translated from the Japanese by Kenneth Rexroth
Sepharad, 1492
Translated from the Spanish by Homero Aridjis and George McWhirter
The Mad Woman
Translated from the Ukrainian by Stash
No Mourning
Translated from the German by Teresa Iverson
100 Years of Youth
Translated from the Ukrainian by Michael M. Naydan
Summer Again
Translated from the French by Hoyt Rogers
Self-criticism
Translated from the Spanish by Garry Emmons
Heraclitus
Translated from the Spanish by Thomas Frick
from Prayers: 1
Translated from the Ukrainian by Bohdan Rubchak and Askold Melnyczuk
Untitled
Translated from the German by Franz Wright
I Wanted
Translated from the Spanish by Alan West
Heart’s Companion
Translated from the Urdu by Andrew McCord
“Following the roads”
Translated from the Japanese by Kenneth Rexroth
The Sun Singers
Translated from the Chinese by Tony Barnstone, Willis Barnstone, and Xi Chuan
Swan
Translated from the Ukrainian by Oleh Lysheha and James Brasfield
I Have Walked Down Many Roads
Translated from the Spanish by Don Share
Xenia I
Translated from the Italian by William Arrowsmith
Tequila
Translated from the Spanish by Forrest Gander
Oblique Rain
Translated from the Portuguese by Isabel Pinto Franco
The King of Tasmania
Translated from the Ukrainian by Askold Melnyczuk
[Untitled]
Translated from the Ukrainian by Larissa M. L. Zaleska Onyshkevych
Lighter, Darker
Translated from the Polish by Piotr Sommer and M. Kasper
Prophecy
Translated from the French by William Louis-Dreyfus and Molly Peacock
The River
Translated from the Vietnamese by Martha Collins and Nguyen Quang Thieu
Paris, October 1936
Translated from the Spanish by Daniel Bosch
The Fence
Translated from the Arabic by Khaled Mattawa
A Definition of Poetry
Translated from the Ukrainian by Michael M. Naydan
The Majesty of Sleep
Translated from the Polish by Clare Cavanagh
The Soul
Translated from the Polish by Clare Cavanagh
Bambi
Translated from the Slovenian by Tomaž Šalamun and Matthew Rohrer

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