AGNI 73
Contents
Editor's Note
I’ll take Hell in a Handbasket for five hundred, Alex.
Essays
The Gay Gene
By Nin Andrews
How To Write About Your Family: A Lesson from Peter Taylor
By Nin Andrews
Monkey Mind: A Meditative Path to Perfection
By Matt Donovan
Forgiveness
Shadowboxing: A Proposal for Unknotting Credit Markets and Restoring Prosperity
Dust
By Ethan Murrow
Crucibles: Walser Before & After
Fiction
Counterfactual
Philosophy Seminar: The Carnivore
The Master of Patina
By Miles Harvey
Hawk
By Ihab Hassan
A Bad Harvest
Monrovia Scripture
It’s All Good
By Sigrid Nunez
Imperfections
By Jamie Quatro
Relatives of God
By Jamie Quatro
You Look Like Jesus
By Jamie Quatro
1963
By Mark Slouka
I Want You to Know That I Know That He Loved You
By Josh Weil
My Father’s Coat
By Tom Whalen
Poetry
Pandemic Sings the Muse
By Amy Beeder
Béla on the Shore, 1955
By Nicky Beer
When It Comes
Afterlife
Elegy for the Spanish Republic
By Bruce Bond
Dog Adrift: Poland, January 2010
My People
Family Talk
We Should Keep Living,
By Katie Ford and Shane McCrae
Envy
By Donald Hall
The Number
By Donald Hall
Upon Reading that a Noisy Cloth Factory Separated the Family Homes of Sandro Botticelli and Amerigo Vespucci
By John Hodgen
Dog Chained to Radiator in Abandoned Apartment
By John Hodgen
The Source of the Styx
Heads of the Hydra
The Mouth of the Anthill Is Learning to Write
The Author, Taken By His Boss to the Baths, Receives an Instructional Brochure
By Bern Mulvey
Goldberg Variations
By Ed Ochester
For Britt
By Ed Ochester
Or
Party at Marquis de Sade’s Place
By Tom Sleigh
Mouse
At a Time
Pick
A Race
An Economics
By David Welch
The Garden
By Philip White
Tethers of mind, tethers of heart: a lyric inventory of the ties that bind, and constrain. Cover and portfolio by Ethan Murrow create the vibration, sustained and amplified in fiction by Ihab Hassan, Mark Slouka, Sigrid Nunez, Tom Whalen, and many others; poetry by Amy Beeder, Tom Sleigh, Patricia Lockwood, and Ed Ochester; and nonfiction by Nin Andrews and Matt Donovan. Translations of Robert Walser, Giulio Mozzi, Paul Celan, and Horace.