Winter 1998-99
Winter 1998-99
The Winter 1998-99 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Thomas Lux. 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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The Sum of Our Parts
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The Levirate
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Wizened
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Gray
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Alive in His Trousers
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The Nudes
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The Night Sky
Nonfiction
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An Interview with Stephen Dobyns
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On Poets, Poets Teaching, and Poetry: Notes from a Journal
Poetry
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Listen, Leo
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Nadezhda
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An Attempt
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Fat Crow Above Me
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Still Life on Brick Steps
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A '49 Merc
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Remote
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What's Going On
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Now I'm Building the World
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If I Must Be Saved
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The Only Day in Existence
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Tomes
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Coconut in the Mail
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Burning the Brush
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Sugaring
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Thus He Endured
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Like a Revolving Door
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Holding the Mare
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Making Sure the Tractor Works
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The Amphibrach
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Waking
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Ballot
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Jimmy, Jimmy, Oh Jimmy Mac
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Leaf of My Puzzled Desire
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The Biopsy
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The Heart
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Winds
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What I Looked at Today
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Meeting Mr. Right at the Rest Stop
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In Chekhov
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25 at Dawn
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78's
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Summer Witness, 1995
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Downtown in Front of the Drugstore
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Elegy for a Rain Salesman
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On Roses and the Cheapness of Talk
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Avoid Eye Area
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Memorial Day
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The Black Shoe
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I Rendezvous with Jim & Lenny at the Barnes
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Adiós Again, My Blessed Angel of Thunderheads and Urine
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Dear Homeboy
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Chaos Theory and the Knuckleballer
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The Wounded Chandelier
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The First One
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On the Road
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The Wreck
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The Mayor
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Confusing Weather
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Purgatory XVII
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Hats Off
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Time on the Down of Plenty
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Gossip of the Inner Life
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Pastoral
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The Twelve Hats of Napoleon
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Water Towers on City Buildings
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Dear John Donne
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Looking for Father in My Reflection
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My Father, The Commander, Poolside at Fifty-Five
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Solace
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A Version of Happiness
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A Minor Riot at the Mint
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Alone
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Animal Empire
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Jelly 292
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Letter to T.
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At the Headstone for Hart Crane
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Elsewhere
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Sigh
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Pinguid
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To My Brother, On the Occasion of His Second Breakdown
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Reality Demands
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Children of Our Era
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Eye-Full Tower
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The Crying Room
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Biblical Also-rans