Dyslexia
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Contributors’ Notes
MASTHEAD Directors DeWitt Henry Peter O'Malley Coordinating Editor for This Issue Paul Hannigan Associate Editor James Randall CONTRIBUTORS RUSSELL BANKS is an old dear friend of the editor of this issue of Ploughshares. JAY BOGGIS is one of the editor's favorite friends. GEORGE BOGIN is one of those rare people the editor has never met….
Her Mother
weeps into a faded finger bowl watches the tears evaporate in air measures the salt each day meanwhile her children spit to keep the plants alive
No Access to Darkroom
As for my photographs Print regardless What more can I tell them Print regardless
One Art: The Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop, 1971-1976
There is more continuity between North & South, Elizabeth Bishop's first book, and the nine new poems of Geography III, her latest, than the familiar and central image of travel. The new poems dramatize even more painstakingly what is perhaps the most fundamental issue in all of her poetry – seeing the ways nothing about…
We Move Together in an Arc on a Graph
the curve is a hill pending
Unqualified for Any Job
What happens in the Plains States— It’s not by any brilliant design that The roads are symmetrical on the maps Straight up and down straight across There are few hills and homes It saves money and pavement to build That way it’s just roots common sense— If I braided the roads around Nebraska And Kansas…
Provincetown: February
On some days the mind refuses to play. Given paradise terrestrial, it can make nothing of it, craving instead its minimal dose of something lethal. But spring is arriving, the great forgiver, and it appears understood that we did not really wish to die. Blackfish Creek has gone into molt, sunken and gliding past its…
Pretending
just a few miles before it went down it was covered with a cloud so that the edges of it were clear no rays and it looked like a huge full moon and I thought about looking into it pretending it was the moon and knowing all the time it was the sun looking in…