AGNI 73

AGNI 73

Tethers of mind, tethers of heart: a lyric inventory of the ties that bind, and constrain. Cover and portfolio by Ethan Murrow create the vibration, sustained and amplified in fiction by Ihab Hassan, Mark Slouka, Sigrid Nunez, Tom Whalen, and many others; poetry by Amy Beeder, Tom Sleigh, Patricia Lockwood, and Ed Ochester; and nonfiction by Nin Andrews and Matt Donovan. Translations of Robert Walser, Giulio Mozzi, Paul Celan, and Horace.

Editor’s Note Fiction Essays Poetry Art Feature

Editor’s Note

I’ll take Hell in a Handbasket for five hundred, Alex.

by Sven Birkerts

Fiction

Counterfactual

by David Ebenbach

Philosophy Seminar: The Carnivore

by Margret Grebowicz

The Master of Patina

by Miles Harvey

Hawk

A Bad Harvest

by David Hollander

Monrovia Scripture

by Ret’sepile Makamane

The Apprentice

by Giulio Mozzi

Translated from the Italian by Elizabeth Harris

It’s All Good

by Sigrid Nunez

Imperfections

by Jamie Quatro

Relatives of God

by Jamie Quatro

You Look Like Jesus

by Jamie Quatro

1963

Cowshed

by Robert Walser

Translated by Susan Bernofsky

Do You Know Meier

by Robert Walser

Translated by Susan Bernofsky

Kutsch

by Robert Walser

Translated by Susan Bernofsky

I Want You to Know That I Know That He Loved You

My Father’s Coat

Essays

How To Write About Your Family: A Lesson from Peter Taylor

The Gay Gene

Monkey Mind: A Meditative Path to Perfection

by Matt Donovan

Forgiveness

by Kathleen Hill

Shadowboxing: A Proposal for Unknotting Credit Markets and Restoring Prosperity

by Askold Melnyczuk

Crucibles: Walser Before & After

by William Pierce

Poetry

Pandemic Sings the Muse

Béla on the Shore, 1955

Afterlife

by Sophie Cabot Black

When It Comes

by Sophie Cabot Black

Elegy for the Spanish Republic

Dog Adrift: Poland, January 2010

by Karina Borowicz

My People

by Karina Borowicz

Family Talk

by Juanita Brunk

Shakespeare’s Sonnet 5

Translated from the German by Paul Franz

We Should Keep Living,

by Katie Ford and Shane McCrae

Envy

The Number

Dog Chained to Radiator in Abandoned Apartment

Upon Reading that a Noisy Cloth Factory Separated the Family Homes of Sandro Botticelli and Amerigo Vespucci

Satire i.1

Translated from the Latin by David Ferry

Heads of the Hydra

by George Kalogeris

The Source of the Styx

by George Kalogeris

The Mouth of the Anthill Is Learning to Write

by Patricia Lockwood

The Author, Taken By His Boss to the Baths, Receives an Instructional Brochure

For Britt

Goldberg Variations

Or

by Maxine Scates

Party at Marquis de Sade’s Place

Mouse

by David Wagoner

A Race

by Daneen Wardrop

At a Time

by Daneen Wardrop

Pick

by Daneen Wardrop

An Economics

The Garden

by Philip White

Art Feature

Dust

by Ethan Murrow

Graphite

by Ethan Murrow