Spring 1998
Spring 1998
The Spring 1998 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Stuart Dybek & Jane Hirshfield. 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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Islands
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The Old Woman and Her Thief
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The Change
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The Scarf
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Bad Jews
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A Radically Condensed History of Postindustrial Life
Nonfiction
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from Falsies: My Mother's Apogee
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from Falsies: Servile
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from Falsies: Persian Lamb
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from Falsies: The Funeral
Poetry
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The Numbers
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Snow Globe
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Skiing by Moonlight
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The Dying
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More
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What Did You Come to See
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Brightness
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Myopia
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Causae et Curae
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Between Words
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Testament
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A Morning from the Good News of John
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"Former Kenyan Parilament Member Arrested for 'Imagining the Death' of President Daniel arap Moi"
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Meat Science
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Cleaning the Statue
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The Soul as a Body
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Uncanny
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So Far
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John & Mary
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Evanescence
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Cezanne
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The Same Apple Twice
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Limbo, That Abolished World
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Poplar Pond, November
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Invocation
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Beginning Chinese
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Defining the Lake
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Grandfather's Alphabet
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Mortal Thoughts
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The Bolt-Struck Oak
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The Snow Leopard of St. Louis
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The Fool: A Letter to Paul Hansen
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Necessity
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My Priest Father's
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Mélange: A Commencement
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Family Stories
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Trying to Raise the Dead
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After Easter
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Corita's Tank
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Snow
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Chapel
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Haydn, 1772
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Incident from the Day of the Dead
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Meditation
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Auspicious Things
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Outside Monterey
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Thunder, Perfect Mind
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Pentecost
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Wherever We Travel
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Near the Sacrificial Site
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As Is
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Fathomless: The Interview
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Mockingbird
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Corners
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With Sam
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White Wall
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Entering
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Thoreau and the Crickets
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Cargo
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Ice Fishing
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Landscape Mode