Spring 2012
Spring 2012
The Spring 2012 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Nick Flynn. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles.
This issue, guest-edited by poet and memoirist Nick Flynn, contains a diverse collection of poems, essays, and stories, from Eric Fair's essay Consequence, on being an interrogator at Abu Ghraib, to Major Jackson's list poem, "Why I Write Poetry." This stylistically varied issue features emerging poets like Samuel Amadon and Sophie Klahr, as well as established writers such as Steve Almond, Mark Slouka, D. A. Powell, Claudia Rankine, Lauren Groff, and others.
Introduction
Fiction
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Gondwana
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Flux
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Sinkhole
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Dog
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Patrol
Nonfiction
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The Blowjob Whale
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Consequence
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How to Live with Uncertainty
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The Removers
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The Adventure Family
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The Devil's Spine
Poetry
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Often, Common, Some, and Free
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(why your room has a door)
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(ode)
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energy
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At the Moment of Beginning
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Practice for Being Empty
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Palace
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Crime Scene
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from Small Porcelain Head
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Secret Fellow Sufferers (
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Secret Fellow Sufferers (
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Penance
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The Suspect
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Lines on the Pathetic Fallacy
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Lines on Sublation
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Gut-Bomb
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Piece by Piece
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"The boss wears a white vest..."
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in the blizzard
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After Grass and Long Knives
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Squalor
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Days of Oakland
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Pascal and the Art of Persuasion
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"Before this dream..."
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Waiting at the River
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The Ark by "Scratch"
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Why I Write Poetry
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50 Ways
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Cartography
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[hodos]
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The Dark Constellations
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Sing to Me
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The Queen of Truth
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Elegy
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Poem Beginning with a Line by Ikkyu
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The Night Is a Thousand Mirrors
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My Box
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from Alienation Effects
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The Bathers
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Excerpt from That Once Were Beautiful Children
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Shadowboxing Herons
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John Henryism
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We Dance on a Spinning Log
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Israel
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Don't Think Like the Mountains, They're Nothing Like the Future
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So and So Descending from the Bridge
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The Big Sleep
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Clip Clop
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(from)
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Nada
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The Conversation Continued
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The Gentle Anarchist
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Please Alice Notley Tell Me How to Be Old