AGNI 63
Contents
Essays
from Philosophic Journal
Seven essays from The Double Serpent: Subtexts in Medicine: caduceus, diseasification, morphine—by way of an explanation, radical mastectomy, sulfa, urinalysis, wound
Blessing the New Moon
An Attempt at a Biographical Essay
Fiction
The Clawed Claims of Bear Love
Monsieur le Genius
By Paul Eggers
Confession for Raymond Good Bird
Poetry
Reliquary
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
suffering
By Quan Barry
The Hunter and the Figs
Sanctum
By Kurt Brown
Forgiveness
The Song of the Books
A Leaf, A Hare
Android Clarinetist
By Robin Ekiss
Dream Week
Red Door
By Donald Platt
Lesson
Predator
By Susan Tichy
American Ghazals
By Susan Tichy
Old Suddenly
By Alpay Ulku
Hollyhocks for Myself
By Alpay Ulku
Dare You
By Alpay Ulku
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.