Spring 2013
Spring 2013
The Spring 2013 issue of Ploughshares, edited by Major Jackson. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles.
The poet Major Jackson (Holding Company, Hoops) compiles this eclectic Spring issue, which includes the work of several distinguished writers and newcomers. Featuring poetry by writers like Mark Doty, Martin Espada, Tony Hoagland, Laura Kasischke, Sharon Olds, Carl Phillips, and Tracy K. Smith, the issue is a dazzling tour of the modern poetic landscape in America. There is also a wide variety of fiction, from the story of a high school girl in the South and her relationship with a white teacher ("What Happens Next," by Emily Bernard) to a New York doorman dying of cancer ("The Rubber Game," by Sherri Phillips). The issue also features a Plan B essay by Floyd Skloot ("The Great Dream"), about the mostly thwarted ambitions of the members of his family, and an appreciation of the British writer Barbara Pym ("Patron Saint of Quiet Lives," by Raina Lipsitz).
Introduction
Fiction
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What Happens Next
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Brief Encounter with the Household Gods
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Transfer Station
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Andorra
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The Rubber Game
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Monkey See
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Alan at the Kirschbergs'
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Church
Poetry
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Pueblo I, New Mexico
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Ukulele
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The Body Is a Big Sagacity
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What We Lost in the Flood—
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Another Elegy
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Knowledge
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Demolition Derby
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Deep Lane
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Praise Poem for American Girls
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Of the Threads That Connect the Stars
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The Florida Sandhill Crane
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Salt on the Tongue
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Crossing Water
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The Complex Sentence
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The Martyr's Motel
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You tell me
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The Graves
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Swan Road
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Dance Dance Dance
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Masticated Light
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The Birds and the Bees
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Beware of the Dark Sedan Idling Inside You
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Porto, Portare, Portavi, Portatus
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test
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Tanka Diary
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The Room in Five Moods of Cannots
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Men
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Douche-Bag Ode
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Meeting a Stranger
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Ode to Piranha
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The Length of the Field
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Chromatic Black
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In Which I Am Famous
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The Boss Who Fired Me During the Recession
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Even the Gods
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The Visions of Sane Persons
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Grusamericana (Whooper)
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Zydeco on Dog Hill
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Logos
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Because There Is No Ending
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My Dear Ego, Be
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Middle Distance
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The Calling
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Letter Written in Black Water and Pearl
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Dancing in Buses