Description
Works-In-Progress Issue
An issue of Ploughshares from Spring 1991, guest-edited M. L. Rosenthal. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles.
This “Works-in-Progress” issue is guest-edited by the poet, translator, and literary critic M. L. Rosenthal. “The work collected here,” Rosenthal writes in the Introduction, “is indicative of where much of our best poetry now stands: its capacity for expressing ‘life immense in passion, pulse, and power,’ its often playful formal eclecticism, its painful concern over what is happening to our lives: in short, its utterly self-contradictory desolation and boisterous zest, both in affect and in artistic morale.”
This issue includes work-in-progress from William Arrowsmith, Frederick Feirstein, Tess Gallagher, Sam Hamill, Brenda Hillman, Galway Kinnell, Thomas Kinsella, Louis Simpson, and many others.
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Book Review
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rev. of Waking by Tom Sleigh
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rev. of When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone by Galway Kinnell
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rev. of Winged Words: American Indian Writers Speak by Laura Coltelli
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rev. of The Coast of Chicago by Stuart Dybek
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rev. of Powers of Congress by Alice Fulton
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rev. of Rebellion Is the Circle of a Lover’s Hands by Martin Espada
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rev. of Maps to Anywhere by Bernard Cooper
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rev. of At Redbones by Thylias Moss
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rev. of Between Silences by Ha Jin
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Contributor's Notes
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Contributors’ Notes
Staff
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Fiction
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from Recipes From the Dump
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Introduction
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Introduction
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Music
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from Porno Diva Numero Uno (a thirty-six section song)
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Nonfiction
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Entries
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from An Interview w/ Donald Hall About The One Day by George Myers Jr.
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Poetry
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Prose Song
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from Death of a Travel Writer
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The Girl from Zlot
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from Post Sequence Drift: Blues 1
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from Post Sequence Drift: Blues 2
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When All the Walls Are Down
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The Obscenity of Henry Miller Against Obscenity
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Darwin III
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from Puerto Rico: Hacienda
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from Puerto Rico: The Autograph Tree
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from Puerto Rico: Holmes and Watson in the Tropics
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from Puerto Rico: San Juan
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from Love Sequence, Summer and Fall: The Call 6/10
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from Love Sequence, Summer and Fall: 7/10
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from Love Sequence, Summer and Fall: Sadness in Robes
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from Love Sequence, Summer and Fall: Rain
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from Post Sequence Drift: The Gaps Between Them
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from The Fogg Poems: To the Green Cabbages in the Fogg Museum
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from The Fogg Poems: To Claes Oldenburg of Geometric Mouse: Variation 1, Scale A
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from The Fogg Poems: To Morris Louis of the Blue Veil, 1958-59
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from The Fogg Poems: To Mark Rothko of Untitled (Blue, Green), 1969
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from The Fogg Poems: To Kenneth Noland of Hover, 1963
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from The Fogg Poems: To Frank Stella of Flin Flon VI, 1970
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from The Fogg Poems: To Helen Frankenthaler of Circe, 1974
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from My Life and Times: A History of Solitude
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from My Life and Times: A Theory of Woe
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from My Life and Times: A History of History
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Art
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Stuff
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Fast Food
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Gods of Vanished Species
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Keeping Watch
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I Left the Road
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My Senses Tired
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Her Heels Tapped on the Tiles
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from Continuous Journal
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from The World Pub: Led By the Love of God to the Love of Woman
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Above and Below in Mexico
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Valentine for Love at Second Sight
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Rain-Soaked Valentine
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The Valentine Punchboard
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Another Visit From the Love Inspector
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from Mandala: In the Beginning
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The Mailbox
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from Restored Medieval House, Sensational Views
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from Mandala: The Gift of Tongues
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from Mandala: Saigyo’s Moons
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from Mandala: Two Birds
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from Mandala: Crossing The Great River
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from Mandala: Lukianos
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Heav’n Is Musick
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Prose Song
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The Candle
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from Pterodactyl Rose: Pterodactyl Rose
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from Death Tractates: Sideways Tractates
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Divine Laughter
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Subtle Body
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Finding Her
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Why I Am Not a Jew
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from Out of Europe: Manhattan Stone
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from Sheffield Pastorals
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Visiting Hour
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At A Well Beside The Way
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from Banquet: Forgiveness
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Time in Armagh
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Queen Bee in Training
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Up Late
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The Bond
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Answers
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Manhattan Farewell
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West of Here, East of There
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from The American Fantasies: Shadow Speaking
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The Excavation
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History
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Meurig Dafydd to His Mistress
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from Blind Witness News: An Opera in Four Parts
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from Fragments
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Musée d’Orsay
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Another Museum
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The Seduction at Villa Carlotta
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Eugenio Montale
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L’educazione intellectuale/Intellectual Education
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Posthumous Valentine
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Un tempo/Once
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A ritroso/Backwards
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Le storie letterarie/Literary Histories
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Un Poeta/A Poet
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Sera di Pasqua/Easter Evening
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from Refracted Light: Life as Text
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In a Dublin Suburb, I Revise the Fate of the Heroine
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Moment in Late Summer
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These Days
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This Isn’t A Story
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Keeping In Touch With An Old Friend
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To the Storm’s End
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Middle Age
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Stresa–The Borromeo Islands
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Gravedona
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Ramponio
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from The Singers of Lesbos (Opera Libretto)
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from The Valentine Elegies
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Magenta Valentine
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Black Valentine
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