AGNI 69
Contents
Editor's Note
Essays
High Compression: Information, Intimacy, and the Entropy of Life
What Will the Soul Do for Solace Then?
By Dinah Lenney
Crucibles: Intimations of Randomness
In Her Hands: The Art World Goes to War
Poetry
Combine
By Adam Day
Why
By Stephen Dunn
Winter in the Garden
Fire Season
By Ian Harris
Shadow of Two
By Eva Hooker
The Last Man Who Knew Everything
The Divine Right of Caprice
Adjacent to the way
Striking the Set
Chernobyl Eclogue
Radical compressions and striking explosions. Brian Christian proposes a radical theory of art as information, and Senior Editor Bill Pierce riffs out further connections, while artist Aldwyth (as elucidated by fellow-artist Rosamond Purcell) offers uncannily apt illustration. Lovers’ beds abound—in fiction by Gary Amdahl, Michael Mejia, and Margo Berdeshevsky—and poets, including Adam Day, Garrett Keizer, Eva Hooker, and Deborah Pease, find what’s fresh and disturbing in the nothing new that is under the sun.