Spring 1995
Spring 1995
Everyday Seductions Issue
The Spring 1995 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Gary Soto. 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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Nondestructive Testing
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In France They Turn to Stone When They Die
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Smugglers
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Mayela One Day in 1989
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Scavenger Bird
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Charm
Poetry
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What Is It About the Past
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Secondhand Smoke
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The Right Kind
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Strip Joint
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In Reserve
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Why You Said It
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The Next Child
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After the Cold War
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Flood Warning for Warsaw, Late Eighties, No Political Metaphors
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Whoa
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Analogue
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Little Girl in Blue, 1918
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Living with Monkeys
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The Raptors
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The Orders
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Confession
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Dinner in the Fall
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Rednecks
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Certain Images, Excluded from My Poems, Form a Parade
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Storm
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Reconciliation
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Dot
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Midday, Too Hot for Chores
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Mrs. Bishop's Pilot Rock Chapeaux and Notions Shop, 1882
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Killing
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Phoenix
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Backswing
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Ah
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A Winter Affair
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Reenactment
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Confinement
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Sighting the Whale
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Conception
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Sakti
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They Lived Here
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Clever and Poor
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All the Carefully Measured Seconds
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Giving Thanks
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Alice, Australia
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Invisible City
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The Lost Underwear of Central Park
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Secrets of Water
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Ten Miles an Hour
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Playing Catch
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The Gust
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Skin Trade
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Eros in His Striped Blue Shirt
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Graveyard Shift
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Postcards and Joseph Cornell
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The Jogger
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Motel Drive