Spring 2005
Spring 2005
The Spring 2005 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Martin Espada. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles.
Guest-edited by noted poet Martin Espada, the Spring 2005 issue of Ploughshares contains prose and poetry by acclaimed authors including Karen Bender, Donald Hall, Yusef Komunyakaa, Pablo Neruda, Sharon Olds, and Adrienne Rich. In his Introduction to the issue, Espada discusses the notion that poetry is dead in America: "Yet we are also a republic of poets, and a nation of storytellers…There are more good poems and stories being produced, and consumed — nay, devoured — in this country than ever before. If this is a funeral, then it's a jazz funeral."
Introduction
Fiction
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Run Run Run Run Run Run Run Away
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Mother
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Refund
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Border
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The Great Cheese
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Sleepwalk
Nonfiction
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Don't Rub Your Eyes
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Instead Of
Poetry
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Mouth Full of Words
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What the Therapist Said
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Hole
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Time as a Verb
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What's Love Got to Do?
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A Sunday in God Years
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The Second Night
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Arriving
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Making Sense of the Currency on Line for Le Musée Picasso
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More than Peace and Cypresses
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Clarinet
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Abraham and Isaac: I
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Abraham and Isaac: II
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Pentecost in Little Falls, New Jersey
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The Red Flower
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Old Story
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Misremembering the Classics
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My Grandmother's Laughter
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The Battle of Lepanto
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Scent: Love Poem for the Pilón
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The Law
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Bread and Butter
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Arguing with Milosz in Vilnius
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The Warrior
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Undertones
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Chess Match Ends in Fight
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Solstice: voyeur
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Drum
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Visible Masses of Condensed Vapor Song, Scotland
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Ode to the Guitar
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Deception
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April in Oglala
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The Glue Trap
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What We Wish For
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A Principle of Perspective
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Internment Camp Psychology
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The Left Panel of the Diptych Speaks
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Sherman Ave. Love Poem #4
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Max and Rose
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Ode to the Eye
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Ode to the Elephant
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Time on the Island
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The Couldn't
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The Alarm Clock
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Stars
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2 Korean Girls
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A Vision of Horses and Mules
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The Avalanche
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Fuses
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Life of the Senses
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Mozart and the Mockingbird
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Dar He
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Some Words About Time
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Old Dog Sniffing the Air
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The Law
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Blackout
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A Spell to Wake My Brother
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Brontophobia: The Fear of Thunder
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New England Slate Pane
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Some Writers in Wartime