Spring 1977
Spring 1977
The Spring 1977 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Jane Shore. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles.
Fiction
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Bodies Like Mouths
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A Well Driller in the Rain
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A Slip Up
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The Son She Has
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Negroes I Have Known
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The Man at the Gate
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The Plymouth Boat
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Applause, Applause
Nonfiction
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One Art: The Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop, 1971-1976
Poetry
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Resting Place
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Letter to Heather
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Dolls
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Attempt to Convince Somebody of Something
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Plumbing the Silence
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The Short Flight
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Dialogue
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For Bartleby the Scrivener
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The Skywriter
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The Interior
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Tarzan of the Sestina
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The Perfect Crime
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The Lake Utopia of Soren Kierkegaard
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Love Poem--Describing the Austere Comfort of the Dream in Which Nothing Is Named
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Letter for a Daughter
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Our Other Mind Problem
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the world of apples
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Sleeping Beauty
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Landmarks
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The Marsh
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1805 Gratiot
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Maybe a Bird
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Chapter 2, Bettina
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The Life-Giving
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Words
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Dying on a Seldom-Traveled Road
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The Dream, The Tool
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The Priest
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Beasts Belong To Themselves
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The Yeti
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Four Parts of a Thousand-Part Poem
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The Green Violinist
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After
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Letter to a Son at Exam Time
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Less of the Same
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Nameless
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You Can Thank
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Provincetown: February
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Illumination from a Psalter
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Lovers in a Garden
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The Aquarium Lesson
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We Keep Her in a Box
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Constantly
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Green, A Chance
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Conviction
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Living Among People With Many Faults
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Bufo Americanus
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Flowers
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New Neighbors in the South
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Bathroom Walls
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Circles
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Putting Mother By
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Questions
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The Luminist at Age Eleven
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Fishes
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Capitalist Bestiary I: Yankee Trader
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Omassum
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Glossary of Terms for Chapter Forty
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Reply to My Uncle Joseph
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Tamsen Donner Crosses The Great Salt Desert
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How I decided to settle in New Hampshire