Winter 1988
Winter 1988
An issue of Ploughshares from Winter 1988, guest-edited by Philip Levine. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles.
This classic collection of poetry and prose, guest-edited by Pulitzer Prize winner and 2011 Poet Laureate Philip Levine, features the work of Yusef Komunyaaka, Mary Karr, Jane Shore, Larry Levis, Fanny Howe, and many other talented poets and writers.
Fiction
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The Man Who Loved Detroit
Nonfiction
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Three Illustrations
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Martial Law Journal
Poetry
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Elegy for the Bad Uncles
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Prospectus
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Processional
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When the Train Comes
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Another Place and Time
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Blackbirds in a Parking Lot, Southern California
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Territory
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Skimming
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Lou Labonte's Inn
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Seeing in the Dark
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The Tidepool
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Meeting Walter
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A Song for Stolen Bread
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11/11
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Aubade
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Midwest Albas
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The Tuba Lesson
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The Death of God
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Bad Family
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Venus's-flytraps
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The Reverend Falwell Describes the Bakkers' Swimming Pool
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Think of the Blackouts
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You Are the Distance
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Poem Ending With Three Lines From Wordsworth
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After the Storm, August
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What They Do at the New Church
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Seeing Some Feral Goats
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The Silence
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The Consolation of the Animals
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Surfer Days
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From the Moon
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Gleaning
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The Future of Supplication
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Isaac Again
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The Commandment
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Men Were Swimming
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The Great Indifference: Clouds Billowing Up
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Monday
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Near Lone Tree
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Happy to Have It
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Conversions
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Dust Motes
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How Angel Came to Be Born in September
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Lights From Belle Isle
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Erosion
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Coyotes
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Lie Near
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Memories of the Invisible Man