Spring 1996
Spring 1996
The Spring 1996 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Marilyn Hacker. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles.
Introduction
Fiction
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Hannah
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Comrade Luxemburg and Comrade Gramsci...
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Issues of Appropriation
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City Life
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My Son, My Heart, My Life
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The Tea Ceremony
Nonfiction
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Earth Bone Connected to the Spirit Bone
Poetry
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Harlem Birthday Party
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Two Years Too Late
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Folding My Clothes
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Breathing Lessons
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In the General
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At the Playhouse
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Route 17
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Fairy Tale and Gloss
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Musical Sacrifice
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My Questions to Obachan, Her Answers
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A Conversation with My Mother, Renko...
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Everybody Loves a Winner
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Voice as Gym-Body
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How I Got Born
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My Heart
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Who Am I?
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Sightings
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Atomic Bride
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Offerings to an Ulcerated God
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On Worms, and Being Lucky
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Née
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Cotton Rows, Cotton Blankets
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Chiaroscuro
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Fanny Burney; Or, The Anatomy Theater
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The Other Girls in Lettuce
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Ogoni
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Letters
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Heartsong
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Becoming Kansas
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Woman of Color
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Another Imaginary Voyage
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The Blue Castrato
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The White Star
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Breast/Fever
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Service
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Ode (To My Desire)
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The First Woman
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Parts of Speech
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The Mistaken Nymph
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Elegy Written in the Conservatory Garden
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When I Was White
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Blue