Description
The Literature of Ecstasy Issue
An issue of Ploughshares from Winter 1990-91, guest-edited by Gerald Stern. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles.
This classic issue, guest-edited by award-winning poet Gerald Stern, explores the “literature of ecstasy.” In his Introduction, Stern writes, “Ecstasy not only means to be ‘placed outside,’ that is, to be ‘placed outside the body,’ but it means—also—to be displaced; and an understanding of the ecstatic mode, in all its sense, would take into account both of these meanings. Thus it denotes a state of exaltation in which one transcends oneself and, as well, a kind of dislocation.”
The writers exploring this theme include Philip Levine, Li-Young Lee, Jerome Rothenberg, Sharon Olds, Robert Pinsky, Jean Valentine, and Stanley Plumly.
Additional information
ISBN | 0933277954 |
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Issue Number | 53 |
Title | Winter 1990-91 Vol. 16.4 |
Volume | 16/4 |
Publication Date | December 30, 1990 |
Decade | |
Product Type | Digital, Print |
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Book Review
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rev. of Winning the City by Theodore Weesner
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rev. of The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
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rev. of The Want Bone by Robert Pinsky
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rev. of The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova ed. by Roberta Reeder
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rev. of Old and New Poems by Donald Hall
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rev. of In the Western Night, Collected Poems 1965-90 by Frank Bidart
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rev. of Let Evening Come by Jane Kenyon
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rev. of Meteors in August by Melanie Rae Thon
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rev. of Giacometti’s Dog by Robin Becker
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rev. of A Relative Stranger by Charles Baxter
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Contributor's Notes
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Contributors’ Notes
Staff
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Fiction
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Killing Time
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Same Old Big Magic
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from Divina Trace
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One Main Sound
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Nonfiction
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from Hole in the Sky
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Approaching the Ecstatic
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Poetry
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from Shadowing the Ground: 63
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67
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Round Trip
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Night Music
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Oh, By the Way
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Children’s Ward: New York Hospital
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The Aviary
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July 4, 1989
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Wind From the Sea
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Harold Bloom
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Little Stabs of Happiness
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Circumstances
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Bread and Water
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For a Long Time I Have Wanted to Write a Happy Poem
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About the Dogs of Dachau
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two from Oblivion
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At the Grave of My Guardian Angel, St. Louis Cemetery, New Orleans
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At the Border
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Where If I Dared I Would Put My Small Hand
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Mourning Song
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Debt
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Self Portrait
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Aborted Fetus
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The Patriot
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Genesis
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My Father the Mouse
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Looking Up
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Tin Ceiling, Pecs, Hungary
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In Berkeley
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Rubber Rats
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Easter
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Pilgrimage
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The World Dies and Is Reborn Again Each Second
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Trust
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Outside Room Six
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The Past
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The Dig
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Heat at the Center
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D’Amour et D’Eau Fraîche
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My Amaryllis
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The Arrival
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Phoenix
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Daughter
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Philomela
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Letita Demands the Magic Touch
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The God Hole
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Visitation
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Reconstruction
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Spring Lamb
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House
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The Ecstasy
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The Brighter the Veil
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Westward Ho!
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Sweetness
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Underground at the Marmottan
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Hates
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Crazy Glue
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The Way of the Coventicle of the Trees
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Gifts
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Worldly Beauty
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A Woman Vanishes
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Below the Power Plant
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A Fine Meal
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De-Exoticizing the Other
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Rue Replique
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Character
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Fox Glacier
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By the Tekapo River, 100 Degrees
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All Night
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Swollen Haiku
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Fishes
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Warrior
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Blanks for New Things
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Ark
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We Are the Junction
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The Empty Set of Instructions
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Dwarf With Violin, Government Center Station
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Keeping the Song
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Blind Man in the Morning
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The Spell
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The Fight
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The Wedding to Black Garter or Trussed
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Small Spaces
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School Lunch Work Program
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Ode to the Spine
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What the Skin Knows
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To the Green Man
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Voices Inside and Out
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The Sacrifice
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This Hour and What Is Dead
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Improvisation No. 4
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The Fly-Cage
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Bowl of Dreams
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Jokes and Their Relation to Art History
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The Deer
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Nihil Est in Intellectu…
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Functions
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Happiness Is Hot, Splattered Brains
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