Winter 2005-06
Winter 2005-06
The Winter 2005-06 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by David St. John. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles.
Acclaimed poet and essayist David St. John (Hush, Prism) compiles this volume of poems and stories that embody the heterogeneity of contemporary literary style. "The greatest strength of American literature," says St. John in this volume's introduction, "has been, at its source, its plurality of voices, its multitude of styles, and its consistent resistance to the coercion of what we have imagined to be prevailing literary trends." Featuring works from former Ploughshares guest editors Edward Hirsch, Carl Phillips, and Alice Hoffman; Ploughshares Cohen award winners Ron Carlson and Maxine Swann; and acclaimed poets like Mark Doty and Jane Hirshfield, this volume mirrors St. John's preference for works that defy convention and, indeed, treat literary trends as "an anachronism."
Introduction
Fiction
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Talk
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In the Old Firehouse
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Saint Helene
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The Sweetness of Her Name
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Church Owl
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Secret
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The Heiress from Horn Lake
Poetry
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Blackouts
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People Walking in Fog
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Mars Being Red
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Sutures
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Bat
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Queequeg's Tattoos: A Headless Mask
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Their Weight
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The Next Night
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Mine Own John Clare
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Instructions for Life
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Pipistrelle
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The Insomniac Liar of Topo
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The Idea of Soup
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Ellipses
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My Life
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Elegy for the Poetry of Her Personal Experience
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The Obscure Room & My Inexplicable Weeping
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The Ghost of a Suicide Goes to the Theater
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Leather Boys
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Dream: Natural Law
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Flamenco Vignettes
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Viva Vox
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Poppy Sleeping
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Still Waltz
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Age of Vanya
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Soutine: A Show of Still Lifes
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Each Morning My Neighbor Walks Out
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Termites: An Assay
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Say When
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The Bracelet
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Buffeted
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A Fine Frenzy
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Prophecy
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Last Class
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The Island
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Étude
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Jacaranda
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A Violence of Season
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Jailbound
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In Livingston Parish, Dreaming of Li Po
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Naming the Stars
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Breaking the Spell
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Apocalypse
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Now
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A Pornography
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On the Bumpers of the Fast Cars in the High School Parking Lot
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Blue
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Cheap Fiction
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Cameras Came Then to Replace Descriptive Paragraphs
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Louchébème
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Waterlights
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Candles
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My Mother's Foot
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It's All Greek
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What the Gypsy Woman Told Me
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Meeting on the Turret Stairs
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Orpheus Again
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Blues
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Clean