AGNI 60

AGNI 60

Words at the threshold. Fiction by Jack Pulaski, Sari Wilson, Kim Adrian, Charles Haverty, Jai Clare, and Margot Singer. Reflections and texts by Russell Banks, Harvey Blume, Lia Purpura, Tom Bissell, as well as portfolio and cover artist Katherine Jackson. Poetry by Catullus, Robert Olen Butler, James Tate, George Kalogeris, Fred Marchant, Megan Newell, Tom Sleigh, and many others.

Editor’s NoteFictionEssaysPoetryArt Feature

Editor’s Note

Reading at the Limit
by Sven Birkerts

Fiction

My Thoughts on Pâté
by Kim Adrian
The Hand of Fatima
by Jai Clare
Crackers
by Charles Haverty
The Matinee
by Jack Pulaski
Reunification
by Margot Singer
The Sightseer
by Sari Wilson

Essays

H & I
by Russell Banks
Truth in Oxiana
by Tom Bissell
Hammer
by Harvey Blume
The Annotated Mix-Tape
by Joshua Harmon
Shadowboxing: From the Diary of a Self-hating Pundit
by Askold Melnyczuk
Glaciology
by Lia Purpura

Poetry

At the Shrine of the Lost Cause
by Dick Allen
Trajectory
by Ciaran Berry
four pieces of Severance: Piers Gaveston, Chin Chin Chin, Jennifer Hadley, Robert Kornbluth
by Robert Olen Butler
Poem 22
by Catullus
Translated from the Latin by Diane Arnson Svarlien
Adoration
by A. V. Christie
I’d Like to Go Down in History
by Luciano Erba
Translated from the Italian by Ann Snodgrass
One of the Things
by Luciano Erba
Translated from the Italian by Ann Snodgrass
When the Sun Shifts
by Luciano Erba
Translated from the Italian by Ann Snodgrass
Gold Star Road
by Richard Hoffman
Answer
by Peter Huchel
Translated from the German by Joel Spector
The Heretic of Padua
by Peter Huchel
Translated from the German by Joel Spector
Sleeping Giant
by Eve Jones
Camus: Carnets
by George Kalogeris
from Stròlegh
by Franco Loi
Translated from the Milanese by Andrew Frisardi
ars poetica
by Fred Marchant
Dear Lunacy
by Fred Marchant
Half Not
by Fred Marchant
House on Water, House in Air
by Fred Marchant
ars poetica
by Megan Newell
Frictions
by James Richardson
Latecomers
by James Richardson
Swan Song
by Ted Richer
After Herodotus
by Tom Sleigh
Ziggurat
by Tom Sleigh
Letzeburgesch
by James Tate
Coda: For Whom the Bell Tolls
by Sam Taylor
Spirit
by Tim Upperton
The drill’s bright bit, its tip, its jewel
by Tim Upperton
Desire
by David Wagoner
The Center of Gravity
by David Wagoner
Adieu
by Nance Van Winckel
Eurydice
by Nance Van Winckel

Art Feature

Cake or Death?
by Katherine Jackson
Liminal Works (essay)
by Katherine Jackson