Fall 2001
Fall 2001
Thirtieth Anniversary Issue
The Fall 2001 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Donald Hall. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles.
This double issue, guest-edited by poet Donald Hall, marks the 30th anniversary of Ploughshares. In addition to reflections from writers and editors involved with the magazine, the issue contains poetry by modern masters like Wendell Berry, Frank Bidart, Robert Bly, Rita Dove, Jeffrey Harrison, Philip Levine, Sharon Olds, and many others. In the Introduction, after writing about how the "fierce certitude" of youthful taste has left him, Hall writes that "I am delighted that these writers--friends and strangers, some of whom are five decades younger than I am--have allowed me to print their brilliant work."
Introduction
Fiction
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Flamingo
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Winter Chores
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The Corn Bin
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Kickers
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In Case We're Separated
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Lunch at the Blacksmith
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Glass House
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Before This Day There Were Many Days
Nonfiction
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Reflection
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Reflection
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Reflection
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Reflection
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Reflection
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Reflection
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Promises to Keep
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Reflection
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Reflection
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Reflection
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Reflection
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Reflection
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Reflection
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Reflection
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Reflection
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The Land
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Reflection
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Reflection
Poetry
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Shades of Alexandria
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Across from Grace
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The Answer
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All
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For the Record
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The Fact
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Injunction
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Almost the Same
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Adventures in the Simic Woods
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Proteus
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The Rat Trinity
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The Men
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Something for the Trade
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Why Hillary Became a Goddess on the Night of Her Acceptance Speech
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Okay, Let's Not Have Sex
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On the Outskirts of the Lost Cities
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Visited
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Art History
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The Morning of the Morning
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The Nun on the Bus, Florence
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Private Life
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Mercy
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The Sisters: Swansong
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Now the Dead Will Dance the Mambo
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Roma Caput Mundi
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A Classical Education
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Baci, Of Course
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Conjecture Number One Thousand
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Song for Two Bodies
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Lonesome Tableau
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Paragraph for Hayden
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The Pond of Desires
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The Mountain
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Bonsai
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The Rapture
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Winter Thoughts
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Gogol in Rome
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14th Street
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Thawing Out
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Hark, Hark
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Pain Thinks of the First Thing
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You Think of the Loss of Paradise
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March 30
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My Fathers, The Baltic
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Felix Culpa
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The Bat
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Edward Thomas's Poem
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The Pine Marten
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Marsh Marigolds
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History of Talking on the Phone
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The Rules of the New Car
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Miss Waldron's Red Colobus Is Extinct
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The Stoic
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In the Idle Style
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Absence of the Archbishop
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The Last Morning
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Frontis Nulla Fides
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Two Poems About Nothing
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Wild Heart
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Posthumous Birthday
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Natural Light
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Viva la Vida
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Our Last Period Together
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Hope
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Toothpick Warriors
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Words to Accompany a Bunch of Cornflowers
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Rainy Sunday
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The Relic
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Journey's End
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Apollo on What the Boy Gave
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Syros, 1989
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The Willies
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Kinfolk
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Airless
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Night Voices
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Ghazal
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Milk of Human Kindness
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Salt
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The Great Siberian Rose
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Tamias Striatus Poetics
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Your Absence Has Already Begun
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Shadow of a Falling Bird
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The Lie of the Ordinary Life
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Cabin
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Autumn in the Yard We Planted
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How Was It Sudden Your Long Death
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Season's Greetings!
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Nostalgia II