Spring 1979
Spring 1979
The Spring 1979 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Ellen Bryant Voigt and Lorrie Goldensohn. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles.
Nonfiction
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Through the Looking Glass: The Romance of the Perceptual in Contemporary Poetry
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The Disappearance of Weldon Kees
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'To Study Our Lives'
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Two Strains: Some Thoughts About English Words
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Sandra McPherson: The Year of Our Birth
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Elizabeth Bishop: The Art of Changing Your Mind
Poetry
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August
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Hunting With My Father
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Vespers
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The Lost Colony
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Gathering
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Truckers and Literary Intellectuals
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For the Father
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Your Life: An Invention
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On Renoir's "The Grape-Pickers'
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The Sleeper
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Staple Supplies
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Farming and Dreaming
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On a Human Scale
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Haymarket Street
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Seeds
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After a Certain Number of Years, the Light Changes
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Steerage
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Aurelio
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Separations
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Divining Rod
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Joseph
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Beauty and the Beast
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October
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Mother in the Garden
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Verendrye: A Waterway to the West
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Sampler
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I Was Taught Three
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In High Waters
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How It Is
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Son
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Attachments
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The Extended Night
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Russia, Morocco, Peru
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from a Sequence for My Daughter
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Twenty-five Years
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The Dead at the Picnic
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The Hair Contest
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Thorn
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Tongue
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Letter to My Mother
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At a Time of the Year
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Coeymans
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Ice Storm
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Calling
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Home Birth
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At Dusk, Your Child is Asleep in the Grass
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Weeds
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Mother and Daughter Photographs
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Julys in the Rose Light House
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The Fifth Season
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Moon in Aquarius
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Eve
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Desire
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The Cleaving
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Intent
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Shrimpboat
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After Thanksgiving
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Message at Sunset for Bishop Berkeley
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Eavesdropping at the Swim Club, 1934
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A Dream of Broken Glass
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Without a Name for This
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Scene
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The Bat In His Room
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The Lost World
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Meeting With Snakes
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William Harrison Slucher, 1889-1961
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Ulysses Simpson Grant 1822-1885
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Dune Grass
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Listening
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The Black Snake
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Driving through Nebraska
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Anecdote of the Stolen Coins
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Grazing
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In the Calendar Square of the Dream
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Poem For Exchange of Habitat
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Love Poem
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Fishing
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All the Time
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The Story of Bread
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Mezuzah
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The Cruise
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Psyche
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Breech: Birth: Dream
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Landscape with Bride
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Shovels
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The Delta Parade
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Turntables
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Baby and Child Care
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A Figure on the Ice
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For Marcus Lynch
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Summer in Bodines
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Alcestis
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The Walk to the Castle
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Some Observations by a Newlywed
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Painting the Picture
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Crabapples
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The Gymnast
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German Shepherds