Winter 2002-03
Winter 2002-03
The Winter 2002-03 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by C.D. Wright. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles.
Edited by renowned poet C.D. Wright (Deepstep Come Shining, Tremble), this issue features new works from Colette Inez, Dorothea Tanning, Liz Waldner, Ben Lerner, Jennifer Martenson, Richard Chetwynd, and Dorothea Tanning. With allusions and quotations from both Henry Miller and the poets and writers of the issue, Wright professes curating the issue based on the fact that "the language these writers are speaking constitutes itself as a protective shield against an epidemic mental blackout and outbreaks of frantic futilitarianism," and that "art-making presupposes a revolutionary state of mind."
Introduction
Fiction
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Lightning Over the Lake
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from Dear Laird Hunt, Author of The Impossibly
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Before Long
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The Stamp
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Tripped Oasis
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World Series, 1979
Nonfiction
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The Uses of Doubt
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from The Book of Jon
Poetry
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Atonement
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Auto-Autumn
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Triage
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Skyscrapers
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In Which Nothing Warns You When You Are Going Astray
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Berenice Abbott's New York
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The Bistro
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Sweetheart
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Apocalyptic Moment in the Café
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[Girl] [Eyes] [Foreigner]
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Last Song
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Snake Handlers
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Ornithology
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Burnens (ii)
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His Voice Had Grown Softer Each Day
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St. Francis at the Fire
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Wherein Mister Fogg Dismisses Passepartout
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Wherein Passepartout Dismisses Mister Fogg
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Plan B
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Everything
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Cryin' in the Garden Blues
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One Size Fits All Blues
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Tree Branch Blues
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Eve's Soliloquy
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Ramparts of Sound
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Certitude
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Down This Wall of Heat
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Disorders of Skin
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Thought to Be Derived from Entobronchium
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from The Lichtenberg Figures
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[I Took a Picture]
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Contact Sheet
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[This Is a Picture]
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coda: her body to lean toward an absence
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underwater
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from Aturuxos calados
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Swan Song
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Wreckage
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Dark of the Moon
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For Instance
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To Zeno
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Rue Monge Narrated
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Eden Tiresias
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The Eden of the Author of Sleep
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from Vertical Elegies 5: The Section
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Verlaine Still in Prison
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The Imagined Snake Is the Sport of the Rope