Web Issue No. 6, 1998

Welcome to our sixth web issue--scroll down and see the selections below. We are pleased to announce the release of AGNI 47. The spring issue features poets Charles Simic, Martha Rhodes, Geoff Schmidt, Larissa Szporluk, Peter Viereck, and includes appearances by fiction writers Jhumpa Lahiri, Charles Bock, and Pamela Painter, among others. The non-fiction section is extensive: an excerpt from Emily Hiestand's upcoming book, Angela the Upside-Down Girl; an essay on Donald Hall's book, The One Day; reviews of Don DeLillo's Underworld and Helen Vendler's Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets; and a timely political essay, Pieces of Bone, about American nun Dianna Ortiz and her story of torture in Guatemala. Artwork by Kurt Kauper has been displayed at Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art.


Pieces of Bone
   by Julia Lieblich

from "Riddle Book to the City"
   by Joshua Weiner

Descent
   by Chard de Niord

The Soul Has Many Brides
   by Charles Simic

Plumbing the Underworld
   by George de Man

Harness
   by Larissa Szporluk

"Building the House of Dying": Donald Hall's Claim for Poetry
   by Chris Walch




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