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Spring 1984

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Seamus Heaney

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The Spring 1984 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Seamus Heaney. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles.

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Genre	Poetry
ISBN	093327775X
Issue Number	33
Title	Spring 1984 Vol. 10.1
Volume	10/1
Publication Date	April 30, 1984
Decade	1980s
Product Type	Digital, Print

Contributor's Notes
- Contributors’ Notes
  
  Staff
Introduction
- Introduction
  
  Seamus Heaney
Nonfiction
- The Poet in an Age of Distraction
  
  Sven Birkerts
Poetry
- Big Bang
  
  David Weiss
- Back Country Possibilities
  
  Emily Wheeler
- This is how I remember you
  
  Emily Wheeler
- Grey Fox
  
  Roberta Metz Swann
- Waitress at a Window
  
  Debra Nystrom
- Punishment
  
  Debra Nystrom
- Stunned Silence
  
  James Schevill
- What a Clever Design
  
  Macklin Smith
- At Yalta
  
  Robyn Supraner
- Oops!
  
  Robyn Supraner
- Sitting
  
  Marisella L. Veiga
- from The Conversation With Dante
  
  Stephen Watts
- The Eavesdropper
  
  J. O. Wayne
- Olive
  
  David Weiss
- Odalisque With Little Red Coffer
  
  Debbie LeMieux
- Blunt Trauma
  
  Philip Mahony
- Portrait of an Aristocrat
  
  David McKain
- Like Garlic
  
  Roberta Metz Swann
- At the Vision Center
  
  Michael Milburn
- The Story of the White Cup
  
  Roger Mitchell
- School Dream
  
  Roger Mitchell
- The Empty Nest Ghazal
  
  Edward Morin
- The Poem as a Deconstructed Car (from Hot Songs For Motown)
  
  Edward Morin
- Survivors
  
  Richard Moore
- Black Fire
  
  Erika Mumford
- Fathers and Sons
  
  Harvey Oxenhorn
- Robin
  
  Anne Pitkin
- A Small Rain
  
  Gibbons Ruark
- Proof
  
  Gibbons Ruark
- To Janey, Address Unknown
  
  Gibbons Ruark
- Nineteen
  
  Terry Savoie
- The Sound Magician
  
  James Schevill
- The Indian Mayor in Guatemala
  
  James Schevill
- Quiet and Getting Quieter
  
  Nancy Schoenberger
- Name-Dropping Stars
  
  Tamara Schulz-Kivi
- Birding the Battle of Attu
  
  Macklin Smith
- West Virginia Handicrafts
  
  Kathleen Spivack
- How To Be Angry
  
  Sue Standing
- Consort
  
  Stephanie Strickland
- Living on Air
  
  Stephanie Strickland
- The Ballad of Fighting With My Father
  
  Jason Sommer
- The Falling
  
  Elizabeth Spires
- April: First Movement
  
  Elizabeth Spires
- The Birds
  
  Brian Swann
- Daybreak
  
  Deborah Tall
- Two Songs of the Earth
  
  Brian Swann
- The Miraculous Mandarin
  
  Deborah Tall
- Cameras
  
  John Unterecker
- The Bottom Line
  
  Michael Van Walleghen
- As Gentle As a Lamb
  
  Marisella L. Veiga
- Mythology
  
  Michael Waters
- Lapsing
  
  J. O. Wayne
- Breath
  
  Kathy Fagan
- Walking With The Pig
  
  J. B. Goodenough
- Learning Distrust
  
  Shirley Kaufman
- To Be Human
  
  George Bogin
- Town Dump
  
  Philip Booth
- Forsythia
  
  George Lee
- Pike Certificate
  
  George Lee
- 89.
  
  Osip Mandelstam
- The Fortune Teller
  
  Marianne Boruch
- The Blue Chair
  
  Marianne Boruch
- Herta
  
  Marguerite Guzman Bouvard
- Poem Catching Up With An Idea
  
  Hayden Carruth
- An Easy Death
  
  Vincent Buckley
- Dear
  
  Cherry Conrad
- A Child Explains Dying
  
  Robert Crumm
- Jack, the Following Summer
  
  Robert Crumm
- Painting of a Woman With Vines
  
  Susan Donnelly
- The House of My Birth
  
  Susan Donnelly
- That Time, That Country
  
  Susan Donnelly
- A Little Cloud
  
  Susan Donnelly
- Quaker Oats
  
  Rita Dove
- Detasseling Corn
  
  John Philip Drury
- Okabe: Mount Utsu
  
  K. E. Duffin
- Arai: Ferry Boats
  
  K. E. Duffin
- Essay on the Personal
  
  Stephen Dunn
- Direction
  
  Cheri Fein
- Rooms By The Sea
  
  Robert Farnsworth
- Venus Beats All
  
  Cheri Fein
- Blackout Holiday
  
  Frederick Feirstein
- Rural Mailbox
  
  Brendan Galvin
- Beachplums
  
  Brendan Galvin
- US Signal Corps Footage
  
  Barry Goldensohn
- Personal History
  
  Laurence Goldstein
- Lunch Break On The Edge of Town
  
  Eamon Grennan
- Late August
  
  Marilyn Hacker
- Misery in the World
  
  Mark Halliday
- from The Sleeping Sonnets
  
  Thomas Heffernan
- Belfast
  
  Fanny Howe
- Last Visit, Elizabeth
  
  Colette Inez
- The Wild Canaries on a Twenty-Mile Stretch of Highway
  
  Joyce James
- Catbirds
  
  Joyce James
- The Way to Moriah
  
  Shirley Kaufman
- After the Wars
  
  Shirley Kaufman
- Pots and Pans
  
  Shirley Kaufman
- What Wrong Is
  
  Shirley Kaufman
- Radiofaria: On a Drawing by Ernst Haeckel
  
  George Lee
- In The House On The Edge Of The Railroad Flats
  
  Miriam Levine
- 136. The Man Who Found a Horseshoe
  
  Osip Mandelstam
- Mushrooming on Olema Ridge
  
  Debbie LeMieux
- Need
  
  William Aarnes
- Identification
  
  Stephen Ajay
- The Twins
  
  Stephen Ajay
- Upon an Eunuch: A Poet
  
  Alexander Albertus
- Reading Jane Austen at 3 A.M.
  
  Christopher Benfey
- Flamingos
  
  Christopher Benfey
- Swan Song
  
  Don Bogen
- A Scholar Gazing at a Flight of Birds
  
  Don Bogen

Spring 1984

Guest Editor

Description

Additional information

Contributor's Notes

Contributors’ Notes

Introduction

Introduction

Nonfiction

The Poet in an Age of Distraction

Poetry

Big Bang

Back Country Possibilities

This is how I remember you

Grey Fox

Waitress at a Window

Punishment

Stunned Silence

What a Clever Design

At Yalta

Oops!

Sitting

from The Conversation With Dante

The Eavesdropper

Olive

Odalisque With Little Red Coffer

Blunt Trauma

Portrait of an Aristocrat

Like Garlic

At the Vision Center

The Story of the White Cup

School Dream

The Empty Nest Ghazal

The Poem as a Deconstructed Car (from Hot Songs For Motown)

Survivors

Black Fire

Fathers and Sons

Robin

A Small Rain

Proof

To Janey, Address Unknown

Nineteen

The Sound Magician

The Indian Mayor in Guatemala

Quiet and Getting Quieter

Name-Dropping Stars

Birding the Battle of Attu

West Virginia Handicrafts

How To Be Angry

Consort

Living on Air

The Ballad of Fighting With My Father

The Falling

April: First Movement

The Birds

Daybreak

Two Songs of the Earth

The Miraculous Mandarin

Cameras

The Bottom Line

As Gentle As a Lamb

Mythology

Lapsing

Breath

Walking With The Pig

Learning Distrust

To Be Human

Town Dump

Forsythia

Pike Certificate

89.

The Fortune Teller

The Blue Chair

Herta

Poem Catching Up With An Idea

An Easy Death

Dear

A Child Explains Dying

Jack, the Following Summer

Painting of a Woman With Vines