Spring 1985
Spring 1985
The Spring 1985 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Thomas Lux. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles.
Nonfiction
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James Tate: Tipster Nomad on a Planet of Rough Edges
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Editor's Note
Poetry
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You Are The Place You Cannot Move
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Committing Sideways
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A Terrible Disappointment
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Exaggerated Consequence
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Sleepwalking
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Self-Portrait
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Immaculatus
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An Excellent Sentence
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North of Kennebunkport
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Public Garden Above the Rhone
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Imagine the Man
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Introduction of Dolphins
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Star for a Glass
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Side with Stars
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Mornings Like a Vase
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The Family
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Pentimento
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The Collector Calls
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The Sound of Sheep Before Shearing
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The Call
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Applications
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Some Gangster Pain
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Alias
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Mirage
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Gone
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River Trip
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At the Summit
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Interstates
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Fish Pier
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Penny Serenade
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The Face in the Ceiling
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Pony Express
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Spider Web
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How To Like It
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Freak
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None Other
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At Your Hanging
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The Donation
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A Life of Crime
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To the Glistening Center of a Period, On a Page of the Newspaper
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Cumbrian Herd
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Sounding
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The Beautiful Illness
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The Past
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The Stone
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Memory
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Works on Paper
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Fables From The Random
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On The Charms of Absentee Gardens
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Ferrying horses
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Stories from the train
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Poem
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My brother
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Something else
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Palm Sunday
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Easter Sunday
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Minnesota
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Requiem Notes
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Still Farther Away
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Dill
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Liquor
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Part of Eve's Discussion
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After the Flood
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The Meadow
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From Nowhere
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Worlds Apart
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For the Nameless Man at the Nursing Home Near the Shawsheen River
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Moving Days
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Home During A Tropical Snowstorm I Feed My Father Lunch
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Central Park
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Gardenia
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Stuffed Rabbit
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A Break From the Bush
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Born Pretty in a Poor Country
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Flashback
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A Certain Reformatory
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On Walk
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Women
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This Is Not What You Think
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Winter Words
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Blue
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The Inner Circle
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Sioux River
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By the Inlet of the Infinitive to Amaze
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Details (Wanting a Child)
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In Weather
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Letter
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Denial
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Pheasant Weather
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A Game
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Driving Home
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Bonin Drowned
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Praying
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Anesthesia
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Walking Home
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Untitled
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Falling Asleep in a Town Near Beach
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More Than Blue and Cloud
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Goodbye
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Rural Childhood
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And Then
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The Silver Coin
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Passion
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Kitsch
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Week of January
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Czechs
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Norman Rockwell
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A Couple Playing in the Shower With a Gooseneck Shower Head; A Couple Waiting For Water Pressure So They May Cleanse Themselves
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Providence
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For Mary
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Rilke's Waif
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Belt
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Heart
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Poem
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I Found Some Pennies And Brought Them Home
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Used Books
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Conversation With My Father
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The First Snow
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Snowfall
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Against Autumn
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Front Street
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Sleep Song
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The Abattoir
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March
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Space
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Carwash kiss
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Transformer
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Jo Jo's Fireworks--Next Exit
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Dear Customer
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Made In Holland
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Tuesday's Child Is: Full of Grace
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Islands Of Lunch
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Destruction of Daughters
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Hog Roast
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The How and Why of Rocks and Minerals
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Visiting the Graves
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The Farmer
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Short Story
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Home Early
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Home
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Still Life
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Thanksgiving Day, 1983
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Untitled
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The Street
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There
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Audience
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Negative
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Wind and Rain
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First Death
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Site
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South Beach