Spring 2006
Spring 2006
The Spring 2006 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Kevin Young. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles.
Guest-edited by noted poet Kevin Young, the Spring 2006 issue of Ploughshares contains prose and poetry by acclaimed authors including Barry Gifford, Mary Gordon, Campbell McGrath, D. Nurkse, and Natasha Trethewey. In his Introduction to the issue, Kevin Young ruminates about the Plough & Stars, the bar where the journal was founded, a place where, "shelter in the darkness, a few rumors, and something to keep us cool" created the perfect "recipe for art." Young asserts that it is this recipe that denotes the connection between the authors' respective works, beyond any restrictive school of thought. "These poems and stories," he writes, "possess a sense of electricity and necessity that courses through the best of our art."
Introduction
Fiction
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One Leg
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Eleanor's Music
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Chasing Birds
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Spectators
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Everyone Looks Better When They're Under Arrest
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Oral Histories
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Sugar Bowl
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What Will Happen to the Sharma Family
Poetry
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Structuralism
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Gnosticism
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Night in Haydenville
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Bagatelles
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Names of Tulips, Good Friday
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Proof
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Spring Planting
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Engraving
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Microphone Fiend
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Rock Deaths
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Worm, (to a rumor of lilies)
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Old Men and Laundromats
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Talk About Failure
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Goldsboro Narrative #27
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Rising dream tide
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Elegy for an Older Brother 1922
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Future Farmers
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Letter from Nazareth House
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Salt
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from The Blank Missives
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The Liberal
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A Journal of the Plague Year
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Brasso
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Hansel in the Cage
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Robotripping
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Two Poems for Frank O'Hara
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Philadelphia
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August Snow
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Cypress Knees
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Double Elegy, With Curse
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Somewhere Between a Row of Traffic Cones and the Country Once Called Burma
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Miss Peach, Carly Simon, and the Problem of Human Beauty
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Miss Peach Is a Cross Between
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Perhaps by Some Obscure Weariness or a Collective Desire for Catastrophe
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Needle
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Kings Go Forth
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Fugue
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Ruler of My Heart
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Through the Agency of Al Green
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Extremadura
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The Book of Sleep (XVIII)
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The Book of Sleep (X)
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A Soup on the Tray
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1983
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Palimpsest
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Taxonomy
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Despair Is Laziness
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Coming From, Going To
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Grave Tour