Winter 2008-09
Winter 2008-09
The Winter 2008-2009 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Jean Valentine. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles.
This issue edited by acclaimed poet Jean Valentine (Door in the Mountain, Little Boat) features new fiction from Peter Selgin, Kathleen Hill, and Fan Wu; new poems by Jessica Greenbaum, David Guterson, Robert Wrigley, and Jeffrey Skinner; and a book review by Ploughshares Founding Editor DeWitt Henry.
Introduction
Fiction
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y = mx+b
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Who Occupies this House
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The Bones of Love
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Salt
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The Next Thing: A Story with Chorus
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The Taste of Life
Poetry
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I Would Live a Day with You
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Two Cranes
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To One Who Owed Me Money
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When Young: Unpainted Masks
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Window on the Cape
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New Year's Underground
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Temper
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Ache Becomes Embankment
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The Reunification of the Body
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Ghazal
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The Rudest Gesture Is the Phone That Rings in the Night
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Specimen Box
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Winter
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We Want A Farm
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Psalm: Made by What
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Leophantos
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One-Eyed Midwife
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Splitting--322 Humphrey Street
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Crosswinds Evaporation Gasping
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Sonnet
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Late Night Talks with Men I Think I Trust
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Daisy
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Thunder Rode
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Los Sofocos
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Desmond Miller, 1992-2001
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from Interview with a Birangona
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In the City of Lost Perfection
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Childless
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Oak, November
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The Lion and The Gazelle
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Deja Vu
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Stowaway's Ascent
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Teahouse
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A Few Questions
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Light Bearer
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Blessing the Lost
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Paper Dolls
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The Stowaway
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Gated All Awake or Andante Festivo
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Schoolgirl
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At the Rehab
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from Holy Ghost People
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Pain Thinks of Something Without Description
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Field Song for Archey Valley in Her Mother's Mother-Tongue
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Lying on the floor
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How I get through the day
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Come What May
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XXIII
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The blue sea
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You're dew on
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Fly you do
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Monologue of the Last Fear
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This Is When I Tell You Like It Is
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Eclipse
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A Point Going Out to Sea
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Size Zero
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Shot in the Foot
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Sestina with Barn and Bird
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Radium (Ra), or Two Reactions
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The New Century
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Personations of Mother Goose
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Poem on Father's Day
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The Fly
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Calf
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Volcano
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Horned Lizard
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Last Will
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Brief Life History as an Unknown Bosch
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This is the small hill
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Night Walk
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When I was come to the house we live in