AGNI 63

Where mind meets intuition. Powerful exploratory fiction by Paul Eggers, Alexandra Chasin, Melanie Rae Thon, Maja Novak, and Phong Nguyen; poems by Alpay Ulku, Sandra McPherson, Donald Platt, Friedrich Hölderlin, and others; sui generis essays by Joan Wickersham, Ben Miller, Christopher Livaccari, A. P. Miller, and Charles Bardes—all held in the presiding visual force-field of artist Christopher Gausby.

Editor’s Note Fiction Essays Poetry Art Feature

Editor’s Note

Finding Traction

by Sven Birkerts

Fiction

The Clawed Claims of Bear Love

by Alexandra Chasin

Monsieur le Genius

by Paul Eggers

Memory Sickness

by Phong Nguyen

The Fall of the House of Pirnat

by Maja Novak

Translated from the Slovenian by Tom Lozar

Confession for Raymond Good Bird

by Melanie Rae Thon

Essays

Of Emptiness, Nothingness, and Asymptotic Freedom

by Christopher Livaccari

Seven essays from The Double Serpent: Subtexts in Medicine: caduceus, diseasification, morphine—by way of an explanation, radical mastectomy, sulfa, urinalysis, wound

by Charles Bardes, M.D.

A Study in Sequins

by Ben Miller

Blessing the New Moon

by Adam Patric Miller

An Attempt at a Biographical Essay

by Joan Wickersham

Poetry

Reliquary

by Seth Abramson

from The Tituba Letters: The Witch Poppet

by Donia Elizabeth Allen

from The Tituba Letters: What Were These Pretty Things, Tituba Speaks of Betty Parris, Tituba Speaks of the Weaver, What Evil Spirit Have You Familyarity With

by Donia Elizabeth Allen

suffering

by Quan Barry

The Hunter and the Figs

by Gaylord Brewer

Pond

by Kurt Brown

Sanctum

by Kurt Brown

Forgiveness

by Ioanna Carlsen

The Song of the Books