Summer 1972
Summer 1972
The Summer 1972 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by George Kimball. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles.
Acclaimed journalist and sportswriter George Kimball ("Four Kings", "Manly Art") guest edits Ploughshares' second issue, showcasing a literary magazine still finding its voice and unfettered by structure. Featuring fiction and poetry interweaved with art and subversive "anti-dramas," Kimball's issue shows the foundation of innovation and challenging thinking that would come to define Ploughshares The issue features work from Ploughshares guest editors DeWitt Henry, Paul Hannigan, Fanny Howe, and Maura Stanton.
Fiction
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Because My Love is There
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In Defense of Pure Sensation
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Silent Letters
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Novel Excerpt
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Novel Excerpt
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The Rejection
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Alternative Crumb
Nonfiction
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Mon Jour Chez Sam: A Visit with Beckett
Art
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A Portfolio
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Silent Letters (Etchings)
Poetry
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When You Die
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The Scots Gentleman on a Visit Escapes
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Crash Diet
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Near Cub Run, In Virginia
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"I'll tell you who I was thinking of"
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Cambridge Vignette
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The Tourists
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Baxter's Wharf, Hyannis
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Walking Notes
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Edwin Dickinson's Perspective
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Falling in Love
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Christy Brown's "Down All the Days"
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Slices
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Melisma
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& So On
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Theme and Variations
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Soft, Soft
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I Begin to See that Life Has Various Themes that Reoccur
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Windy Night
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an abrupt change in nothing
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My Malaria
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Things I Remember About Her Birth
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For Gordon Cairnie on His 75th Birthday
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Franklin Street
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Fuck Poem
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Poem
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Voice From Danang
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Poems
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California
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Out-take
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Isopet
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The Corrected Works
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The Pear Orchard
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Who's Who
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Pearl Diving
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Maumau American Canto