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Plot [#8, Winter/Spring 1997] ed. Christina C. Russell (Calypso Publishing, $3.95, 48pp+, quarto) [] 2 · A Dearth of Ravens · Jake West · ss 14 · The Monster · Jeremy Ponder · ss 16 · Grail · Tim Lockette · ss 21 · Tree of Sorrows · Dale Phillips · ss 24 · Harpsong and Dreamsmoke · Lyn McConchie · ss 26 · A Socratic Pacifist in King Arthur’s Court · Eric Reitan · ss 30 · King and Country · Barbara Tarbox · ss 37 · A Time for Music · John Everson · ss 43 · Twice in His Lives · Mark Rich · ss 48 · Post Mortem · Christina C. Russell · ed

Plot [#9, Summer/Fall 1997] ed. Christina C. Russell (Calypso Publishing, $3.95, 48pp+, quarto, cover by Edward Bocanegra) [] 1 · Letters · The Readers · lc 2 · The Reluctant Guest at the End of the World · Andrew L. Burt · ss 11 · In the Balance of Trade · Dan Thompson · ss 17 · Rendezvous with Hector · Jamie Barras · ss 24 · People Like Us · Lyn McConchie · ss 28 · The Garden Mogul · Kevin Johnson · ss 34 · Gwenore’s Prayer · Rosemary Sullivan · ss 37 · Repeating History · Suzanne Donahue · ss 42 · Trouble at the Door · Susanne Shaphren · ss

Plotweaver

Plotweaver [v10 #4, April 1929] ed. Earle I. Strickland (Hollywood Photoplay and Fiction Institute, 25¢, 32pp+) [] Details supplied by Rob Preston. 3 · Editorial · [uncredited] · ed 4 · Healing the Sick Story · Laurence D’Orsay · ar 7 · The Gulf Between · Earle I. Strickland · ar 9 · What Is Literature? · Madeleine Matzen · ar 10 · How to Present Manuscripts · Jeanette Norland · ar 10 · Dairy of a Dud · M. Ethel Anderson · ar 11 · The Writer-Scientist · Harry Goldberg · ar 11 · “Abie’s” Author Leads Sex in Stage Success · [uncredited] · ar 12 · Stories and Emotion Pictures · William M. Marston · ar 13 · Playwrights Signed for Talkies · [uncredited] · ar 14 · The Agent’s Side of It · Madeleine Matzen · ar 18 · The Story Market · [uncredited] · cl 24 · Directory of Publishers · [uncredited] · ms

Plotweaver [v10 #5, May 1929] ed. Earle I. Strickland (Hollywood Photoplay and Fiction Institute, 25¢, 32pp+) [] Details supplied by Rob Preston. 3 · Editorial · [uncredited] · ed 4 · Writing for the Popular Taste · Earle I. Strickland · ar 5 · Writing Your Way to Independence · Glen Perris · ar 6 · “The Dangerous Sale” · V. M. Cooke · ar 7 · The Game Worth While · Gilson Vandeveer Willets · ar 8 · Pieces of Eight · Jane Sloan · ar 9 · Two Roads to Success · Laurence D’Orsay · ar 13 · The Right Place to Start Your Story · Harry Goldberg · ar 14 · Young Writers Get Break at Universal · Ivan St. Johns · ar 16 · Motion Pictures as Mental Exercises for Children · William M. Marston · ar 18 · Scenario Writing Today · Sherman Lowe · ar 20 · The Story Market · [uncredited] · cl 24 · Directory of Publishers · [uncredited] · ms

Plotweaver [v12 #3, March 1931] ed. Earle I. Strickland (The Plotweaver Publishing Co., 25¢, 16pp) [] Details supplied by John Locke. 2 · Editorial · E. L. W. · ed 3 · [advice to young authors] · W. Wirt · ar 5 · [advice to young authors] · Kingsbury Scott · ar 6 · [advice to young authors] · Allan K. Echols · ar 7 · [short autobiography] · Walt Coburn · lt 7 · [advice to young authors] · Clem Yore · lt 8 · [on writing] · John A. Thompson · lt 8 · Atmosphere in Creative Writing · Reginald C. Barker · ar 10 · Song Writers · Henry R. Cohen · ar 11 · [requirements of Love Story Magazine] · Daisy S. Bacon · lt 12 · The Scenario Market · [uncredited] · cl

Ploughshares   (about) Literary original anthology/magazine published by Emerson College, Boston, MA. Selected contents and back issues of Ploughshares are available at www.pshares.org.

Ploughshares [v1 #1, #1, Fall 1971] ed. DeWitt Henry & Peter O’Malley ($20.00, 122pp, tp, cover by David Omar White) [] 5 · Going to Chicago · Ted Berrigan · pm 7 · The Green Raft · Catherine Dexter · ss 19 · The Cave or The Mine · Thomas Lux · pm 20 · Ten Notes to M-- · Thomas Lux · pm 23 · Oreana · Anselm Hollo · pm 24 · “the total length of” · Josephine Clare · pm 25 · ’it’s lonely in here’ · Harris Schiff · pm 25 · “we ate all the whales” · Harris Schiff · pm 31 · Getting It in the Salt City · Carter Wilson · ss 35 · Settlers · Thomas Tessier · pm 36 · Mahler · Thomas Tessier · pm 38 · Upon Going Into Prison · Thomas Redshaw · pm 39 · In the Endless · Thomas Redshaw · pm 40 · Anthropitis · David Berman · pm 41 · Stage Directions · David Berman · pm 42 · Gloria Gloria · Cynthia Housh · ss 53 · Crossing Tuscany · Andrew Littauer · pm 54 · Images · Bruce Bennett · pm 55 · Contributor’s Note · Bruce Bennett · pm 56 · From the Notes of Keats Before Writing the “Ode to a Nightingale” · Roberto Sanesi · pm 58 · Vacations · Norman Klein · pm 59 · Death Dreams · Norman Klein · pm 60 · Out of Work · William Corbett · pm 61 · My Uncle · William Corbett · pm 62 · Fiesta · Paul Hannigan · pm 63 · Study Aids · Paul Hannigan · pm 65 · A Ten-Minute Walk · Sidney Goldfarb · pm 71 · Ballgame · DeWitt Henry · ss 87 · Old French Fables · Norman Shapiro · pm 89 · Poem on a Surface · John Moritz · pm 90 · First Glimpse Out the Window in the Morning · Nicolas Born · pm 91 · Monday, Monday · Nicolas Born · pm 92 · Amanita Muscaria · Anne Waldman · pm 92 · Sophisticated Poem · Anne Waldman · pm 92 · Vast Love · Anne Waldman · pm 93 · Linwood Place in Snow 2/9/69 2-2:15 pm · Bill Costley · pm 94 · “they just started” · Claudia Menza · pm 95 · The Haitian Campaign · Edward Densmore · pm 96 · Chill Amerika · Andrew Wylie · pm 96 · Vietnamese Girl · Christina Wylie · pm 102 · The Flight · Hayden Murphy · pm 103 · Photos from the Family Album · Will Pirone · pm 104 · Afternoon Tea · George Anthony · pm 105 · Rather Curious Than in Haste · George Anthony · pm 106 · Archeological Dig, Wailing Wall Jerusalem · Anne Shaftel · pm 107 · Waking in the Grass After Dark · William Doreski · pm 108 · A Surge of Passion · David Ball · pm 109 · Balto Md 9 Aug 1968: In Memoriam Robert Lincoln Gullette · David Gullette · pm 111 · Sand · Hugh Maxton · pm 112 · Energy · David Lenson · pm 115 · Journal Excerpts · David Ignatow · ms 119 · Nights of Naomi · William Corbett · br [Ref. Bill Knott] 121 · Contributors’ Notes · [uncredited] · bg

Ploughshares [v1 #2, #2, Summer 1972] ed. George Kimball ($20.00, 100pp, tp, cover by David Omar White) [] 5 · For Gordon Cairnie on His 75th Birthday · Desmond O’Grady · pm 7 · Franklin Street · Desmond O’Grady · pm 8 · Silent Letters · John Bart Gerald · ss 17 · The Corrected Works · Jeff Silva · pm 19 · Voice from Danang · Thomas Redshaw · pm 20 · California · Hugh Seidman · pm 21 · Out-take · Hugh Seidman · pm 22 · I Begin to See That Life Has Various Themes That Reoccur · Phyllis Janowitz · pm 24 · Theme and Variations · David Ignatow · pm 25 · Soft, Soft · David Ignatow · pm 26 · Maumau American Canto · Tom Weatherly · pm 28 · Novel Excerpt · Richard Grossinger · ss 34 · Near Cub Run, In Virginia · Jeoffrey Bartman · pm 37 · Melisma · Paul Hannigan · pm 40 · Walking Notes · David Cohen · pm 41 · Baxter’s Wharf, Hyannis · Richard Burns · pm 42 · Alternative Crumb · James Tate · ss 45 · Novel Excerpt · Fanny Howe · ss 47 · Because My Love Is There · Geoffrey Clark · ss 57 · Crash Diet · Emily Barkin · pm 58 · My Malaria · Thomas Lux · pm 59 · Things I Remember About Her Birth · Thomas Lux · pm 60 · Fuck Poem · Joyce Peseroff · pm 61 · Poem · Joyce Peseroff · pm 62 · Poems · Aram Saroyan · pm 63 · Windy Night · Anthony Jarzombek · pm 64 · Christy Brown’s “Down All the Days” · Larry Eigner · pm 65 · Mon Jour Chez Sam: A Visit with Beckett · David Gullette · ar 70 · Slices · Mark Halliday · pm 71 · an abrupt change in nothing · Hank Kune · pm 73 · When You Die · George Anthony · pm 74 · Edwin Dickinson’s Perspective · William Corbett · pm 75 · Falling in Love · William Corbett · pm 76 · & So On · James Humphrey · pm 77 · Pearl Diving · Jack Thibeau · pm 77 · Who’s Who · Jack Thibeau · pm 78 · The Pear Orchard · Maura Stanton · pm 79 · The Tourists · David Berman · pm 85 · In Defense of Pure Sensation · Edward Dorn · ss 86 · Isopet · Norman Shapiro · pm 88 · The Rejection · Henry H. Roth · ss 94 · Cambridge Vignette · Bruce Bennett · pm 94 · “I’ll tell you who I was thinking of” · Bruce Bennett · pm 95 · The Scots Gentleman on a Visit Escapes · David Ball · pm 96 · Islands in the Stream · William Corbett · br [Ref. Ernest Hemingway] 97 · David Johnson Passed Through Here · DeWitt Henry · br [Ref. John Fairfield] 100 · Contributors’ Notes · [uncredited] · bg

Ploughshares [v1 #3, #3, Winter 1972] ed. James Randall ($20.00, 102pp, tp, cover by David Omar White) [] 5 · Song 72 · Robert Kelly · pm 7 · Boils Down · Tom Sullivan · ss 13 · If the River’s This High All Summer · Martha Fritz · pm 14 · Some Comfort · Martha Fritz · pm 15 · Involving a Risk · Martha Fritz · pm 16 · Song · Stratis Haviaras · pm 17 · A Farewell to a Southern Melody · Ling Chung & Kenneth Rexroth · pm 18 · Backtrack · Charles Wright · pm 19 · Sex · Charles Wright · pm 20 · Family Lottery · John Bart Gerald · ss 23 · In Horse Latitudes · Katha Pollitt · pm 24 · Dream · Marcia Southwick · pm 25 · Deracination · William Gallagher · pm 26 · “some-/times i am/a nigger’” · Sam Cornish · pm 27 · The Elephant’s Decision · Jean Eddy · ss 34 · Just Like Everybody Else · Alphonse Allais · ss 36 · Como · William Meredith · pm 37 · Veal · Phyllis Janowitz · pm 39 · The Thirteen Causes of Love · Ray Amorosi · pm 40 · Sign Language · Paul Metcalf · pm 43 · Driving America · Sue Wilkins · pm 44 · An Evening with the King of the Jews · Jeffrey Davis · ss 53 · There Are So Many Fatherless Children Around · John Wieners · pm 59 · Taking Chances · Robert Hayford · pm 60 · His Marriage (Notes for a Novel) · Joyce Peseroff · pm 61 · Weather · Joyce Peseroff · pm 62 · This Is a Poem About Killing Your Mother · Jeff Knapp · pm 63 · No Dead Ends · Cathleen Quirk · pm 65 · An Interview with Richard Yates · DeWitt Henry & Geoffrey Clark · iv 79 · The Crime of Mopery: Exposing Yourself to a Blind Person · Miriam Levine · pm 80 · Thinking Big · John Rogers · pm 81 · Inheritance · John Rogers · pm 82 · Reflections · William Styron · ar 85 · Badger Swamp · Douglas Delaney · pm 86 · In the Middle of the Road · Kenneth Irby · pm 89 · Protocol · John Price · ar 90 · The Pakistani’s Daughter · Kevin King · pm 91 · The Carnation · David Gullette · br [Ref. Paul Hannigan] 92 · Run/Ride · DeWitt Henry · br [Ref. Kip Crosby] 94 · Judah the Pious · Katha Pollitt · br [Ref. Francine Prose] 96 · Memory’s Handgrenade · Robert McRoberts · br [Ref. Thomas Lux] 100 · By the Sound · James Randall · br [Ref. Edward Dorn] 102 · Contributors’ Notes · [uncredited] · bg

Ploughshares [v1 #4, #4, Summer 1973] ed. Thomas Lux ($20.00, 102pp, tp, cover by David Omar White) [] 5 · In June · Richard Hugo · pm 6 · Ghost in a Field of Mint · Richard Hugo · pm 7 · Time to Remember Sangster · Richard Hugo · pm 8 · Corporal of Artillery · Andre Dubus · ss 18 · Meanwhile Back at the Ranch · J. D. Reed · pm 19 · Another Night in Rue Morgue · J. D. Reed · pm 20 · Sunset and Noon: Marjory P. · Bill Knott · pm 21 · Breeze Nomadly Coupling/Summer Sounds/Precision Insect Chomping · Bill Knott · pm 22 · Rigor Vitus · Bill Knott · pm 23 · Wind and Soup · Jack Myers · pm 24 · Slowing Down · Jack Myers · pm 25 · The Tablecloth Explanation · Peter Sears · pm 26 · On the London Train · Charlene Seeger · pm 32 · Marvin Gardens’ Revenge · Alan Lebowitz · nv 54 · Nine Country Poems · Fanny Howe · pm 57 · The Poem of Disintegration · Robert Kaven · pm 59 · Five Women · Kathleen Spivack · pm 60 · Muzmahil Treating the Sorcerers · G. S. Sharat Chandra · pm 61 · Love Song of Rasheed the Mad Cap · G. S. Sharat Chandra · pm 68 · The Fingers of the Week · William Doreski · pm 69 · Poem · William Doreski · pm 70 · The Only Go-Go Girl in Las Vegas · Joe David Bellamy · pm 72 · “I am tired of being the child…” · Ellen Bass · pm 74 · Harpoons · David Gioia · ss 78 · Lincoln Inward · Michael Ryan · pm 79 · House · Michael Ryan · pm 80 · The Alchemist · David Ray · pm 81 · Playboy · Ellen Wilbur · pm 82 · Memories · John Yau · pm 83 · Moebius Strip · John Yau · pm 84 · My Three Babies · Kim Frielich · pm 86 · Teeth · Wilson Brown · ss 88 · He Live with Bears · Tomas O’Leary · pm 89 · Found Poems · Arthur & David Gullette · pm 89 · Found Poem · Marcia Southwick · pm 90 · Yours, and Mine · James Randall · br [Ref. Judith Rascoe] 92 · Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things · Paul Hannigan · br [Ref. Gilbert Sorrentino] 94 · High on Gold · DeWitt Henry · br [Ref. Lee Richmond] 96 · The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir · Henry R. Harrington · br [Ref. Richard Hugo] 101 · Contributors’ Notes · [uncredited] · bg

Ploughshares [v2 #1, #5, Spring 1974] ed. Fanny Howe ($20.00, 120pp, tp, cover by Arthur Berger) [] 5 · This Is How the Bridge Goes Down · Madeline DeFrees · pm 6 · Solar Plexus · Madeline DeFrees · pm 7 · Dry Falls · Madeline DeFrees · pm 8 · Reviewing Three Portraits · Madeline DeFrees · pm 9 · Bathroom/Animal/Castration Story · Bobbie Louise Hawkins · ss 10 · I Owe You One · Bobbie Louise Hawkins · ss 11 · In the Colony · Bobbie Louise Hawkins · ss 14 · Hands in Winter · Richard Cecil · pm 15 · St. Anthony at Fifteen · Richard Cecil · pm 16 · Darwin Explains Sex in Marriage in Spring · Richard Cecil · pm 17 · Willie Sutton’s Insomnia · Richard Cecil · pm 18 · My Shoes · Arthur Vogelsang · pm 19 · The Night · Arthur Vogelsang · pm 20 · A Little Crazy · Arthur Vogelsang · pm 21 · With Che at the Plaza · Russell Banks · ss 29 · Short Stories · Kathleen Spivack · pm 31 · Lies · Marge Piercy · pm 34 · The Other Side of This World · Calvin Forbes · pm 35 · Slot People · Paul Hannigan · nv 60 · Inflamation · Robert Kaven · pm 61 · Photographic Life · Robert Kaven · pm 62 · Why I Am Tormenting You · Robert Kaven · pm 63 · The Space I Occupy · Robert L. Jones · pm 65 · Dust · Robert L. Jones · pm 66 · February · Jack Marshall · pm 68 · Catching Fire · Jack Marshall · pm 74 · Next Year at This Time · William Dickey · pm 74 · What I Want · William Dickey · pm 75 · Second Daydream · David Gullette · pm 76 · The Cemetery · Douglas Blazek · pm 76 · The Snail · Douglas Blazek · pm 77 · Liason · Mahmoud Darwish · pm 78 · When My Words Were · Mahmoud Darwish · pm 79 · Manhunt · Edward Harkness · pm 80 · After Visiting a Mental Patient · Edward Harkness · pm 81 · The New Atlantis · Eiléan Ní Cuilleanáin · pm 82 · Felicia · Henry H. Roth · ss 89 · Juggernaut · Jon Jackson · ss 96 · Courting Surfaces · Barry Spacks · pm 97 · My Old Professor in a Bar · Barry Spacks · pm 98 · The Pilgrimage Church · Peggy Rizza · pm 99 · My Mother in the Early Thirties · Peggy Rizza · pm 100 · Valentines · Peter Davison · pm 101 · Asking Nothing · Peter Davison · pm 102 · Estivating (journal) · Maxine Kumin · ar 107 · Still Life · Michele Birch · pm 108 · Mexican Straw Angle · Michele Birch · pm 109 · Sonnets · Susan Howe · pm 111 · The Morning After · Geoffrey Clark · br [Ref. Jack B. Weiner] 116 · In Witness · Kip Crosby · br [Ref. Robert B. Shaw] 119 · Contributors’ Notes · [uncredited] · bg

Ploughshares [v2 #2, #6, Fall 1974] ed. DeWitt Henry (128pp, tp, cover by Mary Ellen Mark) [] 7 · The Novels of Brian Moore: A Retrospective · DeWitt Henry · ar 28 · Preliminary Pages for a Work of Revenge · Brian Moore · ss 33 · Evening on the Cote D’Azur, 1952 · Richard Yates · ss 46 · A Man of Melancholy Disposition · Tim O’Brien · ss 61 · Goodbye · Andre Dubus · ss 70 · Skeeter’s Last Reflections · Fred Pfeil · ss 81 · Willie Mae’s Vision · Margaret R. Robison · ss 85 · The Provider · Megan Staffel · ss 89 · Husbandly Needs · Carla Tomaso · ss 97 · I Am an American · James Alan McPherson · ss 113 · Yonnondio · Scott Turow · br [Ref. Tillie Olsen] 118 · Looking for Fred Schmidt · George Garrett · br [Ref. Seymour Epstein] 120 · The Trapper’s Last Shot · James Whitehead · br [Ref. John Yount] 127 · Contributors’ Notes · [uncredited] · bg

Ploughshares [v2 #3, #7, Spring 1975] ed. David Gullette ($14.95, 112pp, tp, cover by Arthur Berger) [] 7 · Exile in Japan · Kenneth Rexroth · pm 8 · Parity · Kenneth Rexroth · pm 9 · Fathers and Sons · Joan Norris · pm 10 · Dialogue · Joan Norris · pm 11 · Nursing Home · Barry Spacks · pm 12 · Bittersweet · Kenneth Rosen · pm 14 · 4/5/74 · Richard Wilbur · pm 15 · Penitentiary Toll · J. Randolph Stewart · pm 16 · Two Deaths of Friends in Two Days and Everyone Is Speculating · Susan Feldman · pm 17 · The Robber Bridegroom · Maura Stanton · ss 28 · Pontianak · Abbot Cutler · pm 31 · Coffee Kiss 6 A.M. · Sheila McCormick · pm 32 · Undertow · George Colt · pm 34 · Reminder · Margo Lockwood · pm 35 · Victorian Grandmother · Margo Lockwood · pm 36 · Cadillac Mountain · Lloyd Schwartz · pm 38 · Prediction · Elizabeth McKim · pm 40 · Intrusive Withdrawal · Rudy Kikel · pm 41 · from Mother-land’scape (Letters) · William Harmon · pm 47 · Table Manners · William Harmon · pm 48 · Tristan · Robert Siegel · pm 49 · The Vineland Lullaby · William Kittredge · ss 57 · Foreigner · Jonathan Aaron · pm 58 · The Terrible Dream About Airlines · Lawrence Raab · pm 60 · Physical Labor · Ira Sadoff · pm 61 · First Daydream · David Gullette · pm 62 · A Brief History of the Banana · Thomas Johnson · pm 63 · El Mono Gramático · Octavio Paz · ex 69 · The Chilean Singer · Eamon Grennan · pm 71 · The Beach Women · Robert Pinsky · pm 73 · Together · Norman Klein · pm 78 · A Conversation (Interview with Charles Simic) · George Starbuck · iv 92 · Country Matters · Raymond Carver · pm 93 · A Version of Chancellorville · John Carr · pm 95 · Butt Gauges · Alice Mattison · pm 97 · A Conversation (Interview with Mark Strand) · Norman Klein · iv 103 · Saint Peter and the Monk · Ray Amorosi · pm 104 · Explication · Albert Goldbarth · pm 105 · A Lot of Night Music · Anthony Hecht · pm 107 · Ploughshares 2/3: Apologia and Reflections · David Gullette · ms 112 · Contributors’ Notes · [uncredited] · bg

Ploughshares [v2 #4, #8, Fall 1975] ed. Frank Bidart, Robert Pinsky & Lloyd Schwartz (250pp, tp, cover by Ralph Hamilton) [] 9 · Ideas · James Merrill · ss 12 · A Few Quotations · Frank Bidart · ar 14 · Primero de Enero · Octavio Paz · ss 18 · The Hardness Scale · Joyce Peseroff · ss 20 · Letting Up · John Peck · ss 21 · Storm · Mark Strand · ss 23 · Local Visions · Rudy Kikel · ss 31 · On First Meeting W.H. Auden · John Malcolm Brinnin · ar 36 · Friends Who Have Failed · Alan Williamson · pm 37 · Reclining Woman · Nancy Isaac Kuriloff · pm 38 · “From the McMichael’s” · James McMichael · pm 45 · In the Ward · Robert Lowell · pm 48 · Our Afterlife · Robert Lowell · pm 50 · Our Afterlife 2 · Robert Lowell · pm 52 · Endings · Robert Lowell · pm 54 · New Dust · Eleanor Ross Taylor · pm 57 · Wires Home · Eleanor Ross Taylor · pm 66 · Nail Letter · Margo Lockwood · pm 68 · On Tour with Rita · Nicholas Christopher · pm 71 · Just Stopping By · Constance St. John Marchiel · pm 72 · Spoons · Ricardo da Silveira Lobo Sternberg · pm 73 · Among Giraffes · Ricardo da Silveira Lobo Sternberg · pm 75 · from “Timber Line Group” · Alice Mattison · pm 77 · Early Morning in Billings, Montana · Alice Mattison · pm 79 · Howard’s Way · Richard Howard · pm 84 · The Escalator · Jonathan Galassi · pm 86 · Counting the Losses · Barry Spacks · pm 87 · The Times · Barry Spacks · pm 88 · Lowell, Lyric, Wisdom, and Style · Helen Vendler · br; review of Pity the Monsters: The Political Vision of Robert Lowell. 96 · Ellen West · Frank Bidart · pm 111 · At the Bus Stop, Eurydice · David Ferry · pm 112 · Ellery Street · David Ferry · pm 113 · My Mother’s Dying · David Ferry · pm 114 · On a Sunday Morning · David Ferry · pm 115 · After Spotsylvania Court House · David Ferry · pm 116 · Montale’s Xenia, and “Impersonality” · F. R. Leavis · ar 125 · Xenia · Eugenio Montale · pm 137 · His Other Life · Peter Taylor · pm 140 · Peach Trees Gone Wild in the Lane · Peter Taylor · pm 141 · The Megalopolitans · Peter Taylor · pm 151 · Remembering and Rereading Howl · Donald Gertmenian · ar 164 · Who’s on First? · Lloyd Schwartz · pm 168 · Satie: Trois Melodies (English versions) · Lloyd Schwartz · pm 171 · Sambas · Elizabeth Bishop · pm 173 · Questions of Memory - New Poems by Elizabeth Bishop · David Kalstone · ar 182 · Case History; A Sestina · Peter Kaplan · pm 184 · The Hypochondriac · Todd Boli · pm 186 · from Satires II, vi · Horace · pm 187 · George Herbert, The Giver and the Gift · William Nestrick · ar 207 · The Old Mathematics and the New · J. V. Cunningham · pm 208 · Essay on Psychiatrists · Robert Pinsky · pm 229 · Wandering · Carlos Drummond de Andrade · pm 230 · The Dead in Frock Coats · Carlos Drummond de Andrade · pm 231 · The Elephant · Carlos Drummond de Andrade · pm 235 · A Writer Is Born and Dies · Carlos Drummond de Andrade · ar 242 · Eliot, Proust, Stein (Quotations) · Lloyd Schwartz · ms 244 · from Canto XI, Purgatorio · Dante · pm (r) 246 · Contributors’ Notes · [uncredited] · bg 249 · Acknowledgements · [uncredited] · ms

Ploughshares [v3 #1, #9, Spring 1976] ed. Tim O’Brien, DeWitt Henry & Henry Bromell ($14.95, 172pp, tp, cover by Judith Arasman) [] 7 · Bread Loaf Address · Seymour Epstein · ar 30 · Mary Lavin: A Note · Henry Bromell · ar 33 · A House to Let · Mary Lavin · ss Winter’s Tales from Ireland 1 ed. Augustine Martin, Gill & Macmillan, November 1970 42 · Going After Cacciato · Tim O’Brien · nv 66 · Cellar Full of Water · George P. Elliott · ss 82 · Vestiges · Meredith Steinbach · ss 95 · An Old Aperitif · Deirdre Burt · ss 103 · The Contagion · Maxine Kumin · nv 114 · Perfection · Ellen Wilbur · ss 121 · Thieves · Richard Yates · ss 133 · The Things She Cannot Write About, The Reasons Why · James Crumley · ss 145 · Separate Flights · Stephen Minot · br [Ref. Andre Dubus] 149 · The Great Victorian Collection · Hallvard Dahlie · br [Ref. Brian Moore] 153 · Dog Soldiers · Geoffrey Clark · br [Ref. Robert Stone] 159 · Disturbing the Peace · DeWitt Henry · br [Ref. Richard Yates] 165 · Amazon One · John Domini · br [Ref. M. F. Beal] 170 · Growing Up Rich · James Randall · br [Ref. Anne Bernays] 172 · Contributors’ Notes · [uncredited] · bg

Ploughshares [v3 #2, #10, Fall 1976] ed. Paul Hannigan ($14.95, 138pp, tp, cover by J. Gladstone) [] 7 · Drifting · Andrew Salkey · pm 8 · The New World · Russell Banks · nv 36 · A Great Sensibility · Jay Boggis · pm 38 · Brododaktylos · Jay Boggis · pm 39 · Abusing the Confidence of a Child · Jay Boggis · pm 39 · Feebleness of Hands · Jay Boggis · pm 40 · The Magnificent Surface Underneath · Jay Boggis · pm 40 · A Death Warrant · Jay Boggis · pm 41 · Closer to Your World · Jay Boggis · pm 42 · Reality Principle · Jay Boggis · pm 42 · Learning Experience · Jay Boggis · pm 44 · Singular · George Bogin · pm 45 · The Facts · George Bogin · pm 46 · Triavil · George Bogin · pm 47 · The Attache Case · George Bogin · pm 47 · Home · George Bogin · pm 48 · Doll Furniture · Cora Brooks · pm 48 · Photograph from the Plain of Jars, 1972 · Cora Brooks · pm 49 · Her Mother · Cora Brooks · pm 49 · We Move Together in an Arc on a Graph · Cora Brooks · pm 50 · Pretending · Cora Brooks · pm 51 · Autobiography of the Film · Wilson Brown · pm 55 · Washing Bill Sax Bowls · William Corbett · pm 56 · Valse Not · William Corbett · pm 57 · “Shreds of Cloud” · William Corbett · pm 59 · “How Dull How Lifeless” · William Corbett · pm 59 · “Nodding Asleep Sitting Up” · William Corbett · pm 59 · “Rip Van Winkle” · William Corbett · pm 60 · Travelling She Said · Douglas Delaney · pm 61 · The Arrival · Douglas Delaney · pm 62 · The Mother · Douglas Delaney · pm 62 · What Was Happening the Moment I Got Married · Douglas Delaney · pm 63 · Completeness of Nowhere · Douglas Delaney · pm 64 · Wet Dream · Douglas Delaney · pm 65 · Infinite Grace · Douglas Delaney · pm 66 · Finding the Andromeda Nebula · Siv Cedering Fox · pm 68 · The Milky Way as It Is Known in Other Languages · Siv Cedering Fox · pm 70 · Dyslexia · Robert Hayford · pm 70 · No Access to Darkroom · Robert Hayford · pm 71 · Unqualified for Any Job · Robert Hayford · pm 72 · The Big Spite · Robert Hayford · pm 73 · A Confessional P. · Fanny Howe · pm 74 · The Care of Small Children · Fanny Howe · pm 76 · Why I Have No Doors · Fanny Howe · pm 78 · Mary, to Joseph · Martha Stearns · pm 79 · Mary’s Eulogy · Martha Stearns · pm 80 · Mary’s Soliloquy · Martha Stearns · pm 81 · At the Orange Mansion · John Yau · pm 83 · Dear… · John Yau · pm 86 · The Assassinations (A Dream) · Paul Metcalf · vi 121 · Harry Murphy · Harry V. Murphy · ss 125 · Boomerang Tears · Moophy Sweezy · ss 134 · purgas purfling · S. Pantos · pm 137 · Contributors’ Notes · [uncredited] · bg

Ploughshares [v3 #3&4, #11, Spring 1977] ed. Jane Shore & DeWitt Henry ($14.95, 294pp, tp, cover by Susan R. Z. Slovinsky) [] 11 · “The Work!”: A Conversation with Elizabeth Bishop · George Starbuck · iv 30 · One Art: The Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop, 1971-1976 · Lloyd Schwartz · ar 53 · Provincetown: February · Vanessa Ryder · pm 54 · Illumination from a Psalter · Vanessa Ryder · pm 55 · New Neighbors in the South · Maura Stanton · pm 56 · Bathroom Walls · Maura Stanton · pm 57 · Circles · Maura Stanton · pm 59 · The Luminist at Age Eleven · Pamela Stewart · pm 61 · Bufo Americanus · Margaret Smith · pm 63 · Dialogue · Richard Cecil · pm 65 · Chapter 2,Bettina · Judith Leet · pm 68 · After · Linda Pastan · pm 69 · Letter to a Son at Exam Time · Linda Pastan · pm 71 · 1805 Gratiot · Richard Hugo · pm 76 · Nameless · Michael Ryan · pm 77 · You Can Thank · Michael Ryan · pm 78 · Tarzan of the Sestina · Edward Diao · pm 80 · Beasts Belong to Themselves · Paul Nelson · pm 82 · Four Parts of a Thousand-Part Poem · Carole Oles · pm 84 · The Green Violinist · Carole Oles · pm 86 · The Aquarium Lessons · Mary Jo Salter · pm 90 · Flowers · Kathleen Spivack · pm 92 · The Lake Utopia of Soren Kierkegaard · Norman Dubie · pm 95 · Plumbing the Silence · Marguerite Guzman Bouvard · pm 97 · The Dream, The Tool · Kristina McGrath · pm 101 · The Marsh · Beatrice Hawley · pm 102 · Letter for a Daughter · Lorrie Goldensohn · pm 104 · Sleeping Beauty · Debora Greger · pm 105 · Lovers in a Garden · Miriam Sagan · pm 109 · Reply to My Uncle Joseph · Anne Whitehouse · pm 111 · We Keep Her in a Box · Betsy Sholl · pm 113 · Tamsen Donner Crosses the Great Salt Desert · Ruth Whitman · pm 117 · Living Among People with Many Faults · Ron Slate · pm 119 · Glossary of Terms for Chapter Forty · Gina White · pm 122 · The Yeti · Mark O’Donnell · pm 123 · The Perfect Crime · Edward Dooley · pm 125 · Dolls · Jack Anderson · pm 126 · Conviction · John Skoyles · pm 127 · Putting Mother By · Dona Stein · pm 129 · Attempt to Convince Somebody of Something · Michael Benedikt · pm 131 · Maybe a Bird · Merrill Kaitz · pm 132 · How I decided to settle in New Hampshire · Frederick Will · pm 133 · Questions · Ricardo da Silveira Lobo Sternberg · pm 135 · For Bartleby the Scrivener · Billy Collins · pm 136 · Omassum · Roger Weingarten · pm 139 · Capitalist Bestiary I: Yankee Trader · Kathryn Van Spanckeren · pm 140 · The Short Flight · Cora Brooks · pm 141 · The Life-Giving · Brad Leithauser · pm 143 · The Priest · Frederick Morgan · pm 145 · The Skywriter · George Colt · pm 149 · Landmarks · Daniel Halpern · pm 150 · Resting Place · Tom Absher · pm 151 · Dying on a Seldom-Traveled Road · David McCann · pm 152 · The Interior · Helene Davis · pm 153 · Fishes · Marian Taylor · pm 154 · Love Poem—Describing the Austere Comfort of the Dream in Which Nothing Is Named · John Engels · pm 156 · Letter to Heather · Nina Rubinstein Alonso · pm 159 · Words · John Maloney · pm 160 · Our Other Mind Problem · Barry Goldensohn · pm 162 · Green, A Chance · Jeff Silva · pm 163 · the world of apples · Alvin Greenberg · pm 167 · Less of the Same · James Richardson · pm 169 · Constantly · Jane Shore · pm 172 · A Slip Up · John McGahern · ss 179 · The Plymouth Boat · R. D. Skillings · ss 191 · The Son She Has · Sheila McMillen · ss 206 · Negroes I Have Known · David Rosner · ss 223 · Applause, Applause · Jean Thompson · nv 243 · A Well Driller in the Rain · John Bart Gerald · ss 247 · The Man at the Gate · Lynne Sharon Schwartz · ss 263 · Bodies Like Mouths · John J. Clayton · nv 285 · The Easter Parade · Hilma Wolitzer · br [Ref. Richard Yates] 288 · Hush · Peggy Rizza · br [Ref. David St. John] 288 · Invisibilities · Peggy Rizza · br [Ref. Douglas Worth] 288 · Ladder of the World’s Joy · Peggy Rizza · br [Ref. Sarah Appleton] 288 · Letter from an Outlying Province · Peggy Rizza · br [Ref. Patricia Cumming] 288 · Personal Effects · Peggy Rizza · br [Ref. Robin Becker, Helena Minton & Marilyn Zuckerman] 294 · Contributors’ Notes · [uncredited] · bg

Ploughshares [v4 #1, #12, Fall 1977] ed. James Randall, DeWitt Henry & Tim O’Brien ($14.95, 174pp, tp, cover by Michael Mazur) [] 9 · An Interview with Bill Knott · James Randall · iv 25 · For Bill Knott: In Celebration and Anticipation of His Selected/Collected Poems · Thomas Lux · ar 38 · Poem · Bill Knott · pm 39 · Where · Bill Knott · pm 40 · The Stillborn (Domesticity #3) · Bill Knott · pm 41 · Song · Bill Knott · pm 42 · For Anne · Bill Knott · pm 43 · from Returning to Earth · Jim Harrison · pm 48 · Wasps · Larry Levis · pm 49 · Soon · Larry Levis · pm 50 · Road, Hog, Assassin, Mirror · Larry Levis · pm 51 · Portrait of the Man Who Drowned Wearing His Best Suit and Shoes · Thomas Lux · pm 52 · Lament for the Friend Who Lost His Brother · Thomas Lux · pm 53 · The Hunting · Thomas Lux · pm 54 · Dimly Outlined by a Police Artist · Charles Simic · pm 55 · The Great Anonymous Eye and Ear · Charles Simic · pm 56 · Photographer’s Hood · Charles Simic · pm 57 · A Day Without Poetry · Richard Lourie · pm 58 · May Day, My Thirty-third · William Doreski · pm 60 · “Kannst du die alten Lieder noch Spielen?” · John Ashbery · pm 71 · “Prisons Are Labyrinths” · Tim Reynolds · pm 72 · “Basho Stood on This Same Bridge” · Tim Reynolds · pm 72 · A Hieroglyph for Rexroth · Tim Reynolds · pm 73 · Marichi · Kenneth Rexroth · pm 76 · A Poem to Go Before Eight Lines by Jalal-ud-din-Rumi · Richard Tillinghast · pm 78 · An Encounter on Exmoor · Anne S. Perlman · pm 80 · John Muir · Peter Wild · pm 81 · Blue Angel · Miriam Levine · pm 83 · Baseball · Gail Mazur · pm 86 · Jerusalem · Ruth Lepson · pm 87 · Another Woman Who Marries Her House Poem · Lyn Lifshin · pm 88 · Cape Cod 1970 · Lyn Lifshin · pm 89 · At Home, Far Away Inside · Thomas McAfee · pm 90 · To the Welcome Wagon Lady · Harold Bond · pm 91 · The Fall · Harold Bond · pm 93 · Return to an Island · Jean Burden · pm 95 · Scott Huff · Leo Connellan · pm 96 · Since Nothing Is Impossible · Michael Waters · pm 97 · The Traveler · Cleopatra Mathis · pm 98 · Who Is This Judi’s Jack? · Kim Frielich · pm 100 · The Train Wreck · Marcia Southwick · pm 101 · The Arsonist · Marcia Southwick · pm 102 · The Earth Swept Clean · David Leviten · pm 103 · Vigilance · John Irving · ss 115 · Getting It On · Anne Bernays · ss 132 · Religious Instructions · Jack Pulaski · ss 143 · Snow Geese · Wendy Lamb · ss 150 · Discovery Section Introduction · James Randall · si 151 · Beating a Fast Tattoo · Mary Marta Anderson · pm 153 · To the Savage Child · John Mahnke · pm 154 · Win a Vigil · John Mahnke · pm 155 · The Piney Forest · Peggy Janey · pm 156 · The Young Girl’s Dream · Peggy Janey · pm 157 · Convict’s Mirror · Sue Standing · pm 159 · Visitor in the Cadaver Room · Donna Gordon · pm 160 · village night · Anneliese Wagner · pm 161 · Full Moons · Steve Blevins · pm 162 · The Cat That Ate the Flower… · Janet Thomas · pm 163 · Insomnia VII · Julianne Gavin · pm 168 · After the Storm · Anne Barbernitz · pm 169 · Arcane Processional · Dianne Marcotti · pm 170 · He weeds the clouds · Denis Leary · pm 171 · the rabbits · Denis Leary · pm 172 · A Message · Stephen Collins · pm 172 · Translation of a German Zeppelin Poster · Kevin Kusinitz · pm 173 · Contributors’ Notes · [uncredited] · bg

Ploughshares [v4 #2, #13, Spring 1978] ed. Rosellen Brown, DeWitt Henry & Andre Dubus ($14.95, 154pp, tp, cover by Susan R. Z. Slovinsky) [] 9 · Notes on This Issue’s Issue · Rosellen Brown · ms 22 · The Romance of the Reminiscence · Ira Sadoff · pm 24 · To His Feminine Self · Michael Benedikt · pm 25 · The House-Painter · Richard Harteis · pm 27 · Swan Song · Askold Melnyczuk · pm 29 · Hannah · Lloyd Schwartz · pm 30 · Seven Variations on Robert Schumann · Ruth Whitman · pm 36 · The Toll of Industry · Deborah Pease · pm 39 · Possessions: Randall Jarrell · Elaine Epstein · pm 40 · Big Sheep Knocks You About · Sharon Bryan · pm 43 · Duck Season · T. Alan Broughton · ss 61 · Company · Frederick Busch · ss 74 · Static Discharge · Lew McCreary · ss 88 · The Garden Wall · John Bovey · ss 105 · Gemcrack · Jayne Anne Phillips · ss 116 · Nine Months in a Small Town · Pamela Richards · ss 132 · Ned · Ellen Wilbur · ss 143 · Travelling · Mary Peterson · ss 154 · Contributors’ Notes · [uncredited] · bg

Ploughshares [v4 #3, #14, Fall 1978] ed. DeWitt Henry ($14.95, 212pp, tp, cover by Susan R. Z. Slovinsky) [] 9 · The Poetry of Anthony Hecht · Ashley Brown · ar 25 · Persistence · Anthony Hecht · pm 27 · House Sparrows · Anthony Hecht · pm 29 · The Lull · Anthony Hecht · pm 31 · Mona Van Duyn and the Politics of Love · Lorrie Goldensohn · ar 45 · Letters from a Father · Mona Van Duyn · pm 49 · Madrid, 1977 · Mona Van Duyn · pm 51 · Goya’s “Two Old People Eating Soup” · Mona Van Duyn · pm 53 · Speak, Memory! · Mona Van Duyn · pm 56 · The Fiction of Alice Munro · Hallvard Dahlie · ar 72 · Characters · Alice Munro · nv 83 · The Short Fiction of George Garrett · William Peden · ar 91 · A Record As Long As Your Arm · George Garrett · nv 115 · Notes away from the Definition of Major and Minor · Christopher Ricks · ar 122 · The Mumbling of Young Werther: Angst by Blueprint in Contemporary Poetry · Brendan Galvin · ar 130 · The Golden Age of the American Novel · Roger Sale · ar 147 · The Criticism of Martin Green (with Gayarti Acharya) · Linda Bamber · ar 156 · Philip Roth · Martin Green · ar 169 · Eve Shelnutt’s The Love Child · Fred Chappell · ar 175 · Obligato · Eve Shelnutt · ss 184 · Joyce Peseroff’s The Hardness Scale · Robert Pinsky · ar 187 · Charles Martin’s Room for Error · Robert Hass · ar 190 · “Magical Strength in the Human Heart” · Carter Wilson · ar 198 · Comfort and Wilderness: Robert B. Shaw · Paul Breslin · ar 204 · The Poetry of G.F. Dutton · Anne Stevenson · ar 209 · On Anne Stevenson · Jay Parini · ar 212 · Contributors’ Notes · [uncredited] · bg

Ploughshares [v4 #4, #15, Winter 1978] ed. Tim O’Brien & DeWitt Henry ($14.95, 210pp, tp, cover by Susan R. Z. Slovinsky) [] 9 · Davidson Among the Chosen · Philip Damon · ss 20 · The Wife’s Tale · Richard Bausch · ss 33 · What Is Left to Link Us · Gordon Lish · ss 50 · Surviving the Flood · Stephen Minot · ss 63 · The Legacy of Beau Kremel · Stephen Wolf · ss 74 · The Tag Match · Joseph Maiolo · ss 87 · Uncle Nathan · Jay Neugeboren · nv 112 · The Cold · Gordon Weaver · ss 127 · El Paso · Jayne Anne Phillips · ss 145 · The Undesirable · David Huddle · na 209 · Contributors’ Notes · [uncredited] · bg

Ploughshares [v5 #1, #16, Spring 1979] ed. Ellen Bryant Voigt & Lorrie Goldensohn ($14.95, 244pp, tp) [] 11 · August · Tom Absher · pm 12 · Hunting with My Father · Tom Absher · pm 13 · Vespers · Tom Absher · pm 14 · The Lost Colony · Angela Ball · pm 15 · Gathering · Jane Barnes · pm 16 · Truckers and Literary Intellectuals · Michael Benedikt · pm 18 · For the Father · Suzanne E. Berger · pm 19 · Your Life: An Invention · Suzanne E. Berger · pm 21 · On Renoir’s “The Grape-Pickers” · Eavan Boland · pm 22 · Farming and Dreaming · Kathy Callaway · pm 24 · The Sleeper · Kathy Callaway · pm 25 · Staple Supplies · Kathy Callaway · pm 27 · On a Human Scale · Ann Fox Chandonnet · pm 28 · Haymarket Street · Steven Cramer · pm 29 · Seeds · Jennifer Crewe · pm 30 · After a Certain Number of Years, the Light Changes · Mary Crow · pm 32 · Steerage · W. S. Di Piero · pm 34 · Aurelio · W. S. Di Piero · pm 36 · Separations · Stephen Dobyns · pm 39 · Divining Rod · Jeanne Dowd · pm 40 · Joseph · Lorrie Goldensohn · pm 41 · Beauty and the Beast · Lorrie Goldensohn · pm 43 · October · Sarah Gorham · pm 44 · Mother in the Garden · Sarah Gorham · pm 46 · Verendrye: A Waterway to the West · Sarah Gorham · pm 47 · Sampler · Sarah Gorham · pm 48 · I Was Taught Three · Jorie Graham · pm 49 · In High Waters · Jorie Graham · pm 51 · The Extended Night · Jeffrey Green · pm 53 · How It Is · Barbara Greenberg · pm 54 · Son · Barbara Greenberg · pm 55 · Attachments · Barbara Greenberg · pm 56 · Russia, Morocco, Peru · Linda Gregerson · pm 57 · from a Sequence for My Daughter · Marilyn Hacker · pm 58 · Twenty-five Years · Donald Hall · pm 59 · The Dead at the Picnic · Jim Hall · pm 60 · The Hair Contest · Jim Hall · pm 61 · Thorn · Carol Baker Hansen · pm 63 · Tongue · Carol Baker Hansen · pm 64 · Letter to My Mother · Madeleine Hennessy · pm 65 · Ice Storm · Adam LeFevre · pm 66 · Calling · Adam LeFevre · pm 66 · Coeymans · Adam LeFevre · pm 68 · Home Birth · Nancy Sherman Lewis · pm 69 · At Dusk, Your Child Is Asleep in the Grass · Nancy Sherman Lewis · pm 70 · Weeds · Nancy Sherman Lewis · pm 71 · The Fifth Season · Fran Lindsay · pm 72 · Mother and Daughter Photographs · Lyn Lifshin · pm 73 · Julys in the Rose Light House · Lyn Lifshin · pm 75 · At a Time of the Year · Judith Kroll · pm 77 · Moon in Aquarius · Linda McCarriston · pm 78 · Desire · Linda McCarriston · pm 78 · Eve · Linda McCarriston · pm 79 · The Cleaving · Linda McCarriston · pm 80 · Intent · Linda McCarriston · pm 81 · Shrimpboat · Gardner McFall · pm 82 · After Thanksgiving · Gardner McFall · pm 83 · Message at Sunset for Bishop Berkeley · Heather McHugh · pm 84 · Eavesdropping at the Swim Club, 1934 · Jane Miller · pm 85 · A Dream of Broken Glass · Jane Miller · pm 86 · Without a Name for This · Jane Miller · pm 87 · Scene · Jane Miller · pm 88 · The Bat in His Room · Paul Nelson · pm 89 · The Lost World · Paul Nelson · pm 90 · Meeting with Snakes · Richard Nester · pm 92 · William Harrison Slucher, 1889-1961 · Richard Nester · pm 94 · Ulysses Simpson Grant 1822-1885 · Richard Nester · pm 95 · Dune Grass · Richard Nester · pm 96 · Listening · Mary Oliver · pm 98 · The Black Snake · Mary Oliver · pm 99 · Driving through Nebraska · Bea Opengart · pm 100 · Anecdote of the Stolen Coins · Nina Payne · pm 103 · Grazing · Nina Payne · pm 104 · Poem for Exchange of Habitat · Paula Rankin · pm 105 · In the Calendar Square of the Dream · Paula Rankin · pm 106 · Love Poem · Susan Irene Rea · pm 107 · Fishing · Carol Ann Russell · pm 109 · All the Time · Michael Ryan · pm 110 · The Story of Bread · Herbert Scott · pm 112 · Mezuzah · Alan Shapiro · pm 113 · The Cruise · Laurie Sheck · pm 114 · Psyche · Laurie Sheck · pm 116 · Breech: Birth: Dream · Dave Smith · pm 124 · The Delta Parade · Susan Stewart · pm 127 · Landscape with Bride · Dona Stein · pm 129 · Shovels · Dona Stein · pm 130 · Turntables · Dabney Stuart · pm 131 · Baby and Child Care · Dabney Stuart · pm 132 · A Figure on the Ice · Dabney Stuart · pm 134 · For Marcus Lynch · Mary Swander · pm 136 · Summer in Bodines · Elaine Terranova · pm 137 · Alcestis · Elaine Terranova · pm 138 · The Walk to the Castle · Elaine Terranova · pm 139 · Some Observations by a Newlywed · Michael Van Walleghen · pm 140 · Painting the Picture · Michael Van Walleghen · pm 142 · Crabapples · Michael Van Walleghen · pm 144 · The Gymnast · Ellen Bryant Voigt · pm 145 · German Shepherds · Peter Wild · pm 147 · The Disappearance of Weldon Kees · Sharon Mayer Libera · ar 160 · Two Strains: Some Thoughts About English Words · Lisel Mueller · ar 172 · “To Study Our Lives” · Wendy Martin · ar 178 · Elizabeth Bishop: The Art of Changing Your Mind · Jane Shore · ar 192 · Sandra McPherson: The Year of Our Birth · Paul Nelson · ar 202 · Through the Looking Glass: The Romance of the Perceptual in Contemporary Poetry · Mary Kinzie · ar 241 · Contributors’ Notes · [uncredited] · bg