Winter 2011-12
Winter 2011-12
The Winter 2011-2012 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Alice Hoffman. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles.
This 40th anniversary issue edited by best-selling novelist Alice Hoffman (The Dovekeepers, Practical Magic) features new work from Ursula K. Le Guin, Marge Piercy, Jennifer Haigh, Ann Hood, and Wally Lamb; an interview with Elizabeth Bishop from the archives; and a story from Ploughshares' first Emerging Fiction Writer's Award winner Thomas Lee.
Introduction
Fiction
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Tomato Season
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The Deer
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Hold the Dark
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Paramour
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Code Blue
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Run
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The Governess and the Tree
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Girl Skipping Rope
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Safety
Nonfiction
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Coming of Age in Book Country
Poetry
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Everywhere I Went That Spring, I Was Alone
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In White
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That Night, I
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Blackbird
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The Years
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Hour of the Changes
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Lorca's Duende
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Not Like Adamo
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Prelude, Delay, and Epitaph
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An Irish Word
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The Fly
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Antidote with Placebo
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Late December
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The night has a long hairy pelt
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The romantic getaway
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Baggage
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I Like to Live with Hermits
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Hitting and Getting Hit
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Ode to Silence
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Orchard House
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Self-Portrait
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Diamond Haiku
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My Opera Glasses
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Here, There Are Blueberries
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“A Field of Dry Grass”