Winter 2010-11
Winter 2010-11
The Winter 2010-11 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Terrance Hayes. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different and personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles.
This issue of Ploughshares features selections of poetry and prose by National Book Award finalist Terrance Hayes, including new work from poets Wanda Coleman, Major Jackson, Denis Johnson, Yusef Komunyakaa, and Jericho Brown and stories from Ben Percy, Christine Sneed, and Hilary Masters. The volume also includes a profile of Hayes, an introduction by Hayes, as well as book reviews and more.
Introduction
Fiction
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The Lake
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Perpetua in Glory
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Wonder Bread
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States
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The Red Balloon
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The Prettiest Girls
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The Monster in the Mountain
Poetry
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The Road to Hell
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Your World Is Harder than Mine: A Sonetto for Children Heading Off to School
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San Pietro a Cascia with Masaccio
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Honey and Holofernes
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Trans-Siberia
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In Line
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Video Shoot
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Diabetic
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Polaris: Excerpt from "Unfinished Book of Mortals"
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Bitch Tree
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Noise (3)
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Ashes Scattered at Sea
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The Mingus Effect
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Difficult Listening Time
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The Invention of Color vs. The Song of EA
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Hillel Furstenberg Greets His Newborn Son
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Anniversary
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The Tip
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Ode to Your Eyebrows
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The Big Thing
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Ritual of Sunrise
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Unkneeled Prayer of Gratitude
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Trees as Soldiers March
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Creationism
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After Riefenstahl
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"Last Night I Dreamed I Was in Mexico"
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"The Trees Leaning into One Another, Green and Horrible"
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Corpse-flower (Amorphophallus titanum)
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Wolves
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Excuse Me, Where Is Varick Street?
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December, Fever
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The Shootout
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The Pool, 1988
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Ontology & Guinness
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Eddie, The Immune
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The Leopard
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To a Braying Donkey
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Agitation: Wake
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Eighty-Eight Days in My Veins
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History Is a Room
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Pigeon
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2) St. Augustine: If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks me, I do not know.
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Attachment: Atlantic City Pimp
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It's a Dream Wherein--Finally, and by That I Mean Right Away, Which Is to Say, Just in Time--I Understand Circular Breathing
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What Stalin Grew Tired Of, 1931 (Bulgakov Blue)
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Self-Portrait As Vincent Van Gogh in the Asylum at Arles
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On a Piece of Paper You Were About to Burn
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Madrigal of Knowledge!
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Madrigal of Tears!
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Shrines
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Get Free
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Lighting
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Fat Ass
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Don't You Wonder, Sometimes?
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Octopus
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Sunflower
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Welcome Home
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The Mollusk Museum
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Waking Up During an Operation
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"The Figure of a Man Being Swallowed by a Fish"
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All That Time
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Harbinger