AGNI 79

AGNI 79

Out of pieces is a world made and understood. Wangechi Mutu’s stunning, disturbing images set the tone for an investigation of canny and uncanny assemblage. Essays by, among others, Carol Ann Davis and Anna Journey; fiction by Ihab Hassan, Matt Sailor, and Ann Pancake; translations of Horace and Callimachus, and poems by Kevin Prufer, Patricia Hooper, and many others.

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Editor’s Note

Ten Broad Swipes at the Problem of Structure in the Essay (and Perhaps Other Genres as Well)
by Sven Birkerts

Fiction

Romaine Remains
by Megan Mayhew Bergman
National Treasure
by Karl Taro Greenfeld
The Fencers
by Ihab Hassan
California Statutes Concerning Defrauding an Innkeeper
by Carmen Maria Machado
Rockhounds
by Ann Pancake
Vinni Pukh
by Matt Sailor

Essays

Lost in London
by Elvis Bego
On Practice, School Buses, Hummingbirds, Rumi, and Being Led
by Carol Ann Davis
Things We Saw and Bought and Lost
by Nicola DeRobertis-Theye
The Unsaid
by William Eaton
An Arrangement of Skin
by Anna Journey
Longing and Other Dimensions
by Mairead Small Staid

Poetry

Arana Gulch
by Rebecca Black
The Bear
by Rebecca Black
Epigram 34
by Callimachus
Translated from the Ancient by Christopher Childers
The Family
by Luis Cernuda
Translated from the Spanish by Stephen Kessler
A Long Marriage
by Patricia Hooper
Blacksnake
by Patricia Hooper
Ode 1.38
by Horace
Translated from the Latin by Christopher Childers
Ode 3.13
by Horace
Translated from the Latin by Christopher Childers
A Paper Hive Earns No Quarter
by Adam Houle
Confessio Inimicus
by Adam Houle
Horse
by Cynthia Huntington
Distortions on Boorde 1
by Charles Bardes, M.D.
Distortions on Boorde 2
by Charles Bardes, M.D.
Distortions on Caius
by Charles Bardes, M.D.
At the Crystal Palace, London
by Sarah Rose Nordgren
Mother, Pressed
by Sarah Rose Nordgren
Giving It Back
by Kevin Prufer
Monkey Lab
by Kevin Prufer
As I Kissed Frankie on the Mouth
by Elizabeth Rees
Women Around the Table
by Elizabeth Rees
Kitchen
by Joseph Spece
Grieving, Sidpa Bardo
by Brian Tierney
A Walk Among the Yachts
by Nance Van Winckel
Tidings, Good Ones
by Nance Van Winckel
The Psalmist Talking
by Tomaž Šalamun
Translated from the Slovenian by Tomaž Šalamun and Michael Thomas Taren
Zone B
by Tomaž Šalamun
Translated from the Slovenian by Tomaž Šalamun and Michael Thomas Taren

Art Feature

Funk Morphologies
by Wangechi Mutu