Spring 2007
Spring 2007
The Spring 2007 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Edward Hirsch. 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 poet and critic Edward Hirsch (How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry), the Spring 2007 issue of Ploughshares contains prose and poetry by such authors including Joyce Carol Oates, Patricia Hampl, Stuart Dybek, Jim Shepard, Philip Levine, Wislawa Szymborska, and Adam Zagajewski. In his Introduction to the issue, Hirsch says, "I want to send out this issue of Ploughshares in the high spirits of a Saturday morning in late March. I was alone and took a long walk by myself, but I also carried with me this surprising gathering of writers, this sudden congregation of solitaries, some from different countries, a few no longer living. It was solitude with others, some of whom scared me with their intensity, which is what one wants from art."
Introduction
Fiction
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Ghosts
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Closely Held
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Winter Worm, Summer Weed
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Goat
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Hi Howya Doin
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Pleasure Boating in Lituya Bay
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Dressing Up
Nonfiction
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Dead of the Night
Poetry
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Essaouira
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The Deer
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My Poetry Professor's Ashes
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Learning to Become Nothing
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Kantor
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In the Center of Water
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14 rue Serpentine
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Prayer
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To a Horseshoe Crab
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In the Darkness
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You
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Pan
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The Man at the End of My Name
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The Dead Girls
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Love, or Something
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The Morning After the Afternoon of a Faun
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Not Springing Forward in Barcelona
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Poem for My Mother's Hysterectomy
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Modern Prototype
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A Child's Ark
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Cane Fire
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Aubade, Kawela
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Vesuvius
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Rue de Poitiers
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Untitled
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Arrival & Departure
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I Look into Her Face
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When He Described the Park
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Semper Augustus
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Monsterful
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Set Theory
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Location, Location
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Exit
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Exclamation Point
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Every Night
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Goodbye Letter #6
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Wounded
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Cherries
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The Asexual Reproduction of Ferns
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A House Sparrow
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The Van
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The Failed Trick
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Three Lanterns
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Telephone Call
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Specimen
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Guide for the Perplexed
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Hospital
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Under the Pergola
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As Nooteboom Would Have It
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Black Walnut
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Reading the Torah
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Neglect
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Fall Day
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Night Song from the Apartment Below
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He Won't Go to Sleep Without Me
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Does She Have a Name?
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Poppies
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Ode to Greens