Winter 2009-10
Winter 2009-10
The Winter 2009-10 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Tony Hoagland. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles.
This issue of Ploughshares features selections of poetry and prose by award-winning poet Tony Hoagland. In his introduction, he writes, "Let's just say that my time among the transcendentalists made me fiercely suspicious of easy innocence. And my time among the realists has made me fiercely protective of our right to flight. Thus, the poems and stories gathered here in Ploughshares reflect these two broad bands of human temperament: the skeptical scrutiny and the rapturous updraft."
The issue includes new work from poets including Howard Altmann, Adrian Blevins, Matthew Dickman, Farrah Field, Mark Halliday; with prose by Rebecca Makkai, David Stuart MacLean, and Nic Pizzolatto; book reviews; and a profile of Tony Hoagland.
Introduction
Fiction
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Painted Ocean, Painted Ship
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Flood Story
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Graves of Light
Nonfiction
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Tempo and Duration
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Remembering Ray Bourque
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The Answer to the Riddle Is Me
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Foolish Man Blues
Poetry
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In This House
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Bluebird
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On a Line by W. H. Auden
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Hither & Yon
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Heisenberg
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Mashups - Liquor Store
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Country Song
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The Waning
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Wish
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Blue Guide
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The Toothache
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A Dear Devoted Husband
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The Census, 2010
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Missing Jerry Tang
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October Crushes Your Soft Lip
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Poems Describing Someone
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The Madness of King George
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Chainsaws
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Things Are Starting To Look Up Again
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The Witch Stands Beyond the Vapor
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Hostage
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Muses
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The Youngest Star
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Bath of Yellow Light
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The Face of Jesus
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Landscape with Parking Lot
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No Vacation for Maigret
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South Street, October
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A Gender Theory
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Riding the SPCA's Llama in the Christmas Parade
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The Mass Has Ended Go in Peace
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Theodicy
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Poem with a—in It
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Sorrow
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Lake Charles
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Traveling Light
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Idiom
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Approaching
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God Loves You
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After the Persian
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Citadel
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Roommates
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The Leafy Sea-Dragon
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"...'immortality' may be a silly word, but probably a mathematician has the best chance of whatever it may mean..."
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The Wolves of Illinois
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How You Came To Be
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Writing About Writing About Writing
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Brother in Family
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Hard Times
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Disgust
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Consider the Source
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Provide
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How Music Is Made
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Goldfinches
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Whether
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Often Things Went Wrong
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Mrs. Abernathy
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One Summer My Family Reads Madame Bovary Together
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The Beautiful American Word "Guy"
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The Fish God Provides