Winter 1985
Winter 1985
International Writing Issue
An issue of Ploughshares from Winter 1985, guest-edited by Stratis Haviaras. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles.
This classic issue, guest-edited by poet Stratis Haviaras, features international writing by a number of world masters, including Italo Calvino, Primo Levi, Graham Greene, and Seamus Heaney, with art by Paul Hannigan. It also contains translations of work by Anna Akhmatova, Naguib Mahfouz, Andre Breton, C. P. Cavafy, and many other brilliant writers, past and present, from around the globe.
Introduction
Fiction
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A Letter from the Sahara
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Fatima and Jamila
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Suddenly One Summer
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Five Tales from Alleyways
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from Internal War (a novel)
Nonfiction
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An Open Invitation to Extra-terrestrials
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Notes on Poetics and Ethics
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A Weed Among the Flowers
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Aphorisms and Observations
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The Habit of Affection
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Theological Explanations
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from A Poet's Journal: Days of 1925-1931
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From Six Nights on the Acropolis
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Translator's Preface: Two Scenes from Phaedra
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Translator's Preface: Wei Chuang
Drama
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Two Scenes from Phaedra
Poetry
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Zh. 113
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Zh. 234
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Zh. 244
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Zh. 255
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Zh. 290 Apparition
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Nine Poems
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Atlantis
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History
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Ripe
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The Beautiful Summer
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Veneranda
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Delphi the Second Day
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The Ravine
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The Iron Bridge
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A Voice
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On the Road to San Romano
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Asia
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An Afternoon
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Cadillacs and Poetry
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This Morning
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Union Street: San Francisco Summer 1975
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Vigil
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Withering
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Tune: Echoing Heaven's Everlastingness No.1
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Mourning At The Strings Of My Concubine, Miss Yang's Zither
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Recording Events
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Tune: Raise The Cup. No. 1
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Tune: Raise The Cup. No. 2
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Tune: Song Of An Immortal. No. 2
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Tune: Song Of Waterclock At Night
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Night Thoughts at Chang Terrace
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Recording Events In The Village Where I Live
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Refusing Wine, I Leave My Mat
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Plucking Out White Hairs
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Composed By The Ferry At Night Over The Chien-ch'ang River
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Remembering My Daughter Silver Maid (Ah Yin)
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Introduction to the Beyond
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Les Enfants du R.P.G. (Rocket-Propelled Grenade)
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From West Beirut
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On the Summer Goddess who Should Be Nameless
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Mock Translation from the Greek
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Violet
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The Garden Was Entering The Sea
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Deep Blue
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Clearance Sale
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Anniversary with Agaves
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Eight Fabliettes
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Ghazal 24
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Ghazal 26
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Ghazal 42
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Ghazal 10
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The Ballad of the Bullets
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Skeletons
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Spacetime
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To the Translator
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Puzzle
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Proof
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Birthplace
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The Future
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Time as Seen From Above
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Childhood Has Ended
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Air
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Stranger's Hand in Your Pocket
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People on the Move
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In Flight
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This Moment
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The Heart
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How Far
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I'll Remember That
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If It Comes To Pass
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Inscription On A China Dish
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The Time of Trial
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Rumor Has It
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By Saying
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The Answer
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Unfinished Business
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Chess I
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Chess II
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The Cry
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Little Girls Riding Bikes on the Sidewalk
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Six Bits
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Cuttlefish Bones
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Ode to an Old Wine
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The Post Office
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The Technique
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A Blade of Grass
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Meeting
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You, Wind Of March
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The Night You Slept
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Give Me Back My Rags
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The Adventures of a Poor Young Man
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Around Town
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Paper Poems (From third Series)
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Greeting
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The Catherine-Wheels
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To Be A Poet
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Nocturnal Divertimento
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View From Charles Bridge
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Mythos
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Albert Camus
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Poems From A 1984 Diary
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The Christmas Of Long Walks
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Melancholia
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Grodek
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The Forgotten Commander
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Once More
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The Lion
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Adam