Spring 1992
Spring 1992
West Real Issue
The Spring 1992 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Alberto Rios. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles.
Introduction
Fiction
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Blazo
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Earnest Money
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Eighty Acres
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Forrest in the Trees
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Hairy Men
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Ground Rules
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Blood of the Lamb
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Monday Her Car Wouldn't Start
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The House of Cleopatra
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Memories End
Nonfiction
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Trickery
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Poet Richard Hugo: The Open Field Beyond
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The Lure of the West
Poetry
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Lies
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Still Life
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Captain Cook
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After Estrangement
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Portrait, Age Seven
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Alone on the Mountain
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Deaths I Come Back to
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Words From Buffalo Bill's Wife
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Letter From a Mining Town, 1839
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Sailing for California: Panamanian Market, 1850
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Cortège for My Sister's Husband
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Apartment Complex Dialogue in the Laundry Center
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Why I Left the Church
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In the Year 1946
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Biscuits and Gravy at Ma Black's
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Black Wasp
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Estrella Mountains
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Notes on Arrogance
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Eight Months
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Kissing Lycanthrope
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October, Yellowstone Park
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Doc
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The Weatherman
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Incomplete Combustion
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Hesperia
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Ghost
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What Fails Us
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The Coast of Texas
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A Ryder Nocturne and The Temple of the Mind
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Sierra Nevada: Cold Work Moment
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Elsewhere
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The Rain in Five Places Over Chino Valley
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Heat's Elect
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Strong Stars
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Young Boy Dancing at Playa Los Muertos
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The Hand That Feeds
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Not Knowing
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College Car
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Magazine Advice
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Christmas in Taos
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A Distant Tune
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Mauna Loa at 7,000 Feet
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'Ama'u
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Kamuela
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Angels of the Mission of the Southern Cross
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Dawn in the Internment Camp at Heart Mountain
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Master Oki, Keeper of Days
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The Sanity of Tomatoes
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from The Generations
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After the Explosion of Mount St. Helens
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Valarie
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Snowing Desert
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Prometheus in the Alcoholic Rain