Spring 2010
Spring 2010
The Spring 2010 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Elizabeth Strout. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles.
This issue of Ploughshares features selections of poetry and prose by Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Elizabeth Strout. In her introduction, she writes, "The first year in college the discovery of those literary journals seemed like my secret alone. No one seemed to talk about them! And so I didn't either. But I would slip one from the holder and go over by the window and read with hungry happiness...Abundance is the word I think of now. Such an abundance of life: the tiny and the huge--all there. Waiting."
The issue includes new fiction by Richard Bausch, Mary Gordon, Amy Hempel, Joyce Carol Oates, and E. V. Slate; poetry by Amy Beeder, Paula Bohince, Edward Hirsch, David Kirby, Bridget Lowe, and Katha Pollitt; a Plan B essay by Antonya Nelson; book reviews; and a profile of Elizabeth Strout by Ladette Randolph.
Introduction
Fiction
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We Belong Together
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Long Division
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Ars Longa
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Greed
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Cremains
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A Memo from Your Temp
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Dolph Schayes's Broken Arm
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Distance
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The Sailor
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Marty
Poetry
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After Aristophanes: take a twig
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Doorway
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Fassbinder
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Wishbone
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Defenestrer
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More Weight
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A Woman's Warfare
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She's My Rainbow
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Rummaging
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At the End of a Ninetieth Summer
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Eating Crow
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Marshland
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The Crowd in the City Square
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Theatre
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Archive
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Life Study
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Celestial Room
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a bouquet of violence
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Aubade shaped like breasts or arrows
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Tree of life
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September Song
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Baby Handle
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Arthur
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The Cat and the Fiddle
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Her Dream
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Anti-Pastoral
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The Pilgrim Is Bridled and Bespectacled
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The Pilgrim Looks at the World from Above
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Always Throw the First Fish Back Into the Sea
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The Fads and Fashions of our Life and Times
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Divorcée
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Who Can't Handle Me Is You
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Looking at an Old Photograph
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Mouth
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Overnight at Key West
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Sunblind at Huayapam
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The Cat
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Making Small Talk, the Cashier at the Grocery Store Inadvertently Creates a Religion
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1967
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The Surface
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Gratified Desire
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Star Sapphire
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Anatomy
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Pastoral
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Traveling Light
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Marriage, East Berlin
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Angels
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Sweet Nothings
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Hotel Razing
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Swanilda Meets Her Twin
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Crashing Slow and Sudden
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The Spanish Steps: Keats Departing
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Park Bench
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Stone Church
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Bookstore
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Being Called Ma'am
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Not Knowing
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The Old Boyfriends
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It Gets a Little Hazy About Now
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Where Do Your Poems Come From?