Winter 1989
Winter 1989
Diversity/Adversity Issue
An issue of Ploughshares from Winter 1989, guest-edited Marilyn Hacker. 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 the poet Marilyn Hacker, explores the themes of diversity and adversity. “What is in our experience can enter the canon,” Hacker writes in her Introduction. “This is part of an American populist heritage that stubbornly refuses a disjunction between art and life: domestic, sexual, economic, and political life. As many poets here look out as they do look in.”
The issue features the work of many established as well as lesser-known voices, including Hayden Carruth, May Swenson, Rita Dove, Alberto Rios, J. D. McClatchy, Toi Derricotte, and Eavan Boland.
Nonfiction
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An Invitation to My Demented Uncle
Poetry
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For Desdemona and Love and Myrrh
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Quintet in C Major
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Ave
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Moral Theology
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Poppies
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Pas de Deux
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John Cougar Really Has Cousins Here
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Almanac
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Sestina in a Cafe: San Francisco '89
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Bar Talk
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Overdose
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Express
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To Be Childless Is an Error?
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At Sixty-Four
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The Rooms of Other Women Poets
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Hospice
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Goes
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Block
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Fleur
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Wherever You Find It
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The Winter Road
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Somerset Alcaics
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The Poet-In-Residence
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The Critic
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She of the Flawed Character
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Applied Art
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Fascination of the Line of Transit
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Dead Baby Speaks
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Into Camp Ground
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Aunt Ida Pieces a Quilt
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Sonnet
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Missing
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Rusks
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The Wrong Street
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Dental Hygiene
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Il Etait Une Fois
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Christmas Shopping in Venice
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Egypt
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1494
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1967
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1987
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1853
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Of the Doubleness
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In the Empress's Palace
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Moon Cakes
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The Empress Speaks to Buddha
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Dancing With the Empress
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Vassar's Orange Living Room
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Leaving Williamsburg
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The Beautician
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The Man in the Helmet
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Cover-Ups
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Desire
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Sante Fe
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Deer Dancer
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This We'll Defend
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Play It Slower
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After the Prom
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maryland, africa
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mozambique
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Of Pairs
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The Woods
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Under the Lights
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Mismatched Shoes
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Cousins
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from Chase
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In Trouble
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Portrait of a Packer
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Hiawatha in South Africa
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Pantoum of Bruises
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from The Last Days of William Short
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Cysts
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Sprung Sonnet for Dorothy Dandridge
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Bo Jangles Visits the Studio
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On the Anniversary of Your Death
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For John T. Allen or When a Man Can't Get to the Next Corner
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Courtly Love
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She Did My Hair Outside, The Wash a Tent Around Us
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The Lynching
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Immanence
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Peanut Butter
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Mother Mask
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Stern Visage
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Little Owl Who Lives in the Orchard
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Cancion de Segadores
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The Weed Flower
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Sonnet to Billy
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Doorways. Windows. Fences. Verges.
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Autumn Clean-Up
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Ice
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from Crime Against Nature
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In Memory of Francis Fergusson (1904-1986)
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Twenty-One Turkeys
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In the Hospital
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Marvella, For Borrowing
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Teodoro Luna's Old Joke
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Family
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Material
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Changes in the Atmosphere
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2:13 A.M., Drunken Long Distance Call From JR's Bar and Grill
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Sudden Departure
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Sonnets for a Single Mother
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Edge
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Past Lives
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The Children of Abergavenny
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What It Would Be Like
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Lover
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Monkey Boy
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War Movie: Last Leave, 1944
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All Happy Families
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A Rescue
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Back-Ordered Tears
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from The Widow's Words
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Poem For My Father
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Friendship Among Women
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Marilyn Monroe
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Annunciation
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Chopin
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The Ballad of Aunt Geneva
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The Fortunate Spill
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Chamber Music in Early December