Spring 1997
Spring 1997
The Spring 1997 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Yusef Komunyakaa. 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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from In the Garden of Papa Santuzzu
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Tiger Frame Glasses
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Mote
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Squash Flowers
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The River Woman's Son
Poetry
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Adriatic
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Touch the Blues
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Art Pepper
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The Feather at Breendonck
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Letter from the North
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The Death of Jazz
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In Search of the Great Dead
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Escaping God
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Bad Impression
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Invisible Dreams
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Mercy on Broadway
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Night Train
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Thanksgiving
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from Earth's Mirror
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Ruby, My Dear
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Ragcutters' Heaven
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Waiting to Wake Up Française
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Komi
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Again, The River
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Our Town Intermezzo
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Reflections of the Lady Ch'ang
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In Frost
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Afterlife
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For the Love of the Game
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Superstition Mountains, April
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Distance
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Wisdom
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Elegy for Whatever Had a Pattern in It
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Night
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First Things
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A Chronicle of the Who & How
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El Balserito
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Alba: Innocence
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Ti Kikit
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Caribbean Corpses
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Returning Home/Back-a-Yard
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Poem for Josephine Baker
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Driving Out of Providence
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Preparation for Burial
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A Story About America
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Angel
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On, Wisconsin
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Distant Rain
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Motive
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Against the Crusades
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An Explanation
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Two Seals
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Westbound
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from Rosary
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Tail Dragger
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From the Postcard at Vertigo Bookstore in D.C.
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Wedding Dress
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Red Ochre
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In the Pardes
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Celebration of the Body