AGNI 77

AGNI 77

The body eclectic—artist Fabio D’Aroma’s expressively cartoonized bodies and physiognomies catch the flavor of an issue featuring Lynne Sharon Schwartz’s surgery memoir, as well as meaty and muscular fiction from Tiphanie Yanique, David Hernandez, E. C. Osondu, and Melanie Rae Thon; essays by Lia Purpura and Elvis Bego; poetry by Dana Levin, Jordan Smith, Peter Balakian, and Carol Moldaw; and much more, including translations from the Lithuanian, French, Japanese, Danish, and Russian.

Editor’s Note

Notebook: Style

Fiction

My Beautiful Life
Medium Tough
Fetch
Tarping the Wheat: The Wages of Sin
Jackrabbit, Lizard, Rattlesnake, Saguaro
Oakland Gomorrah

Poetry

Near the Border
Large Shadows
Translated from the French by Hoyt Rogers
Waiting for the Hummingbird
Karl Lagerfeld Meets Voltaire and the King of Prussia in the Hallway
The Fast Friendship of Voltaire and the King of Prussia
Leda, Later
At first I didn’t see the contours of the problem.
The Making of a Prophet
Lady Xoc
The Importance of the Right Punctuation
“Cold prickles my scalp”
Translated from the Russian by Deborah Marshall and Douglas Penick
“No, never”
Translated from the Russian by Deborah Marshall and Douglas Penick
Myodesopsia
Lost Hope
Translated from the Japanese by Christian Nagle
One Too Many Samurai Movies
One windy evening in September
Translated from the Danish by Susanna Nied
The best is slowly dropping to sleep
Translated from the Danish by Susanna Nied
New Faces of Belfast
La Baigneuse
Translated from the Lithuanian by Rimas Uzgiris
The Riverbed

Art Feature

Retrocorionica
Simple But Dangerous (essay)