Summer 1979
Summer 1979
The Summer 1979 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Lloyd Schwartz. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles.
Fiction
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Nothing to Write Home About
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Communication from an Educated Young Man
Nonfiction
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Robert Trail Spence Lowell
Poetry
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I Always Thought
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City Lights: I Took That Picture
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The Sacrifice
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Todd Carter
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Bubbles
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Evening News I,
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Evening News II,
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Sculptures by Dimitri Hadzi
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Rereading Old Writing
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A Creation-of-the-World Poem
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The Department
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The Book of Father Dust
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The Thrush Relinquished
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The Loss of the Beloved Companion
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American Pastoral
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Starting Over
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Blue Spruce
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Western North Carolina
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Functional Poem
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Five Notes on Sex
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The Mastery of the Knuckleball
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Honoré Daumier
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Threads of August
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What Came To Me
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Rain in January
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What It's Like
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The August Field
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Roadmap
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A Boy
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Elegy for My Father
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Three Poems for Kaddish
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Secret Animals
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Husband
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Three Novembers
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Raspberries in New Hampshire
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The Social Life of the Baboon
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Hurricane Watch
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Three Sections from a Book-Length Poem
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Michael's Fete
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Refuge
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Orange
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Beautiful Ruta
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Looking for Something
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Stanzas from Valéry
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Spring Training
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Those Fireflies, For Instance
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Mug Shots
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Melancholia
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The Laughing Angel: Reims
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Taint
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The Alchemist
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No Wonder the Wood
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A Small Spider
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Five Miles from Home
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Presence
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Bernini's Proserpine
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(Detail)