Winter 1995-96
Winter 1995-96
The Winter 1995-96 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Tim O'Brien & Mark Strand. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles.
Introduction
Fiction
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A Creature Out of Palestine
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Who Is It Can Tell Me Who I Am?
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The Old Mistakes
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After Rosa Parks
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Bowling in the Future
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Easy Lay
Nonfiction
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An Interview with James Merrill
Poetry
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When a Woman Loves a Man
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That Cold Summer
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Still Life with Motion
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An Elegy Is a Man
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Cave in the Ravine
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Story
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Wind, Horse, Snow
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Black
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Talk
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Two Tragedies, With Preface
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Letter from the Garden
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Running Lights
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Circe's Grief
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Penelope's Stubbornness
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The Errancy
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Common Will
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The Hole in the Ocean
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Color Comes to Night
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Schoolyard with Boat
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Fish Dying on the Third Floor at Barney's
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June, June
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Pursuit of Happiness
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Three Poems
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Her Body
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Ethics of Twilight
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Days of 1968
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In the Backyard
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Dust Storm
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First Marriage
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Tenth Commandment
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Eleventh Hour
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Twelfth Night
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Fifth Amendment
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Ninth Inning
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The Dead
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Forty Years
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The Sign
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Wind/Breath, Breath/Wind
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Terza Rima for a Sudden Change in Seasons
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Character as Fate
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Prypiat—Still Life
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Conductor of Candles
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Don't Wake the Cards
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Cafe Paradiso
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On the Road to Somewhere Else
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The Number of Fools
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Lone Tree
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The Interpreters of Dreams
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Bread Lines
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Chaos Theory
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The Brooch
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Port Townsend
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Bay of Naples
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Christmas East of the Blue Ridge
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Umbrian Dreams
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October II