Winter 1999-00
Winter 1999-00
The Winter 1999-00 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Madison Smartt Bell & Elizabeth Spires. 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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Black Elvis
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The Mourning Party
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Happy Birthday
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White Fang
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False Confessions
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Israel
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Engaging Diane
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Gray Girl
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Stop Breaking Down
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Centipedes on Skates
Poetry
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The State I Loved You In
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You Open Your Hands
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Mutating Villanelle
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The Hidden Street
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A Walk at Dusk
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Overture
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Peking Robins
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An Awful Story
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The Blame
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Puritan Impulse
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Translations from the Irish
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Scarecrow in Magnolia
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Myself as a Wasting Phoenix
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Sin
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The Lilies of the Field
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Education by Stone
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The World I Painted Twenty Years Ago
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Orchard Bees
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The Banquet
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Orpheus Crossing
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Latch
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Fragments
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Respects
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Fugue for Kristallnacht
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The Attic
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The Spell
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Sunspot
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A Blessing
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Obit
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Resurrection
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Red Oak Farm
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Thinking of Gorki While Clearing a Trail
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December 25
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Mercury
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An Arithmetic
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What to Tip the Boatman?
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Opossum
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Seduction
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The Play Hour
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If You Wish on Them
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Ghazal
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Sickle
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Cicada
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Driving Lesson
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Shadow
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Lintel
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Missing World
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Spider Time
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In the House of White Light
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Trees
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For the World
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Stateside
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Paraldehyde, She Said
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Those Alternate Sundays
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Approaching 40
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Seen
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Broughtonia
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Self-Portrait