AGNI 67 Table of Contents (2008)
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Voice and transformation. This issue features a deep reckoning of friendship by Roland Merullo, a recollection of a mentor by Jhumpa Lahiri, and sharp, smart idiosyncracies by Sarah Gorham and David Rivard. Playing against these are antic and bittersweet stories by Perle Besserman, Ken Kalfus, and Vladimir Makanin, among others. Here are writers marking how the self broods—broods, and then flips loss onto its turtle back; how it damns the damnable and laughs out at all that is tangled and absurd. Pilar Coover’s hallucinatory visual textures aptly counterpoint the voices, which also include those of poets Matt Donovan, Amy Beeder, Paula Closson Buck, Bruce Smith, and Derek Walcott.
Fiction
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Richard Stern | A Berlin Story |
| Nicholas D. Mennuti | Connected |
| Vladimir Kozlov | Drill and Song Day (translated from the Russian by Andrea Gregovich with Mikhail Iossel) |
| Ken Kalfus | Professor Arecibo |
| Perle Besserman | The Sackman Street Boys |
| Vladimir Makanin | A Time of Exchanges (translated from the Russian by Mary Ann Szporluk) |
Poetry
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Joanne Diaz | À la Turka |
| Derek Walcott | “Afternoon. Durrant’s. . . .” |
| Amy Beeder | Against the Neighbors, Bury Bottles |
| Matt Donovan | Bessie Smith’s Last Recorded Song |
| Matt Donovan | Bullied Into Thoughts About the Body & Desire at the Colorado State Fair |
| Amy Beeder | The Charges Are Stalking & Arson |
| Bruce Bond | Choir |
| Scott Withiam | Close |
| Todd Hearon | Covenant |
| Bruce Smith | Devotion: Dub |
| Bruce Smith | Devotion: Fly |
| Maureen Alsop | Epiphany |
| Matt Donovan | How Graceland’s Decorator Landed the Gig |
| Stephen Burt | In Maryland |
| Idra Novey | Into the Atacama |
| Scott Withiam | Just These Miracles |
| Bruce Bond | The Last Days of Jaco Pastorius |
| Paula Closson Buck | Litany of Resistance |
| Steve Gehrke | Morphine: Eugene O’Neill Remembering |
| Steve Gehrke | Nihilism: Eugene O’Neill at Sea |
| Mark Conway | Not Night |
| Nicky Beer | Octopus vulgaris |
| Mikhail Rodionov | “On this sleepless night . . .” (translated from the Russian by J. Kates) |
| Derek Walcott | “Perhaps it exists . . .” |
| Kevin Prufer | Recent History |
| Derek Walcott | A Sea-Change (reprinted in Harper’s Magazine; chosen for The Best American Poetry 2009) |
| Alexander Stessin | “She says, ‘It’s bad . . .’” (translated from the Russian by J. Kates) |
| Amy Beeder | Silverfish |
| Nicky Beer | Skin Trade |
| Todd Hearon | Song for the Returns |
| Chard deNiord | The Thinker |
| Paula Closson Buck | Tigers |
| Matt Donovan | Two Songs About the Work of Hands |
| Stephen Burt | A Walk in the Morning Sun |
Essays
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Jhumpa Lahiri | Alberto de Lacerda: A Remembrance |
| William Pierce | Crucibles: The Orchestration of Surprise |
| Sarah Gorham | Darling Amanita |
| Kelle Groom | How to Make a Shoe |
| Sven Birkerts | In the Commissaries of Hell |
| James Guida | Marbles |
| David Rivard | A Note on Steven Berg’s Rimbaud: “. . . still unilluminated I . . .” |
| Josh Gidding | On Not Being Proust: An Essay in Literary Failure |
| Askold Melnyczuk | Shadowboxing: The Evil of Banality |
| Roland Merullo | Visions of Gerard |
