Ploughshares Winter 1987 Guest-Edited by Bill Knott

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An issue of Ploughshares from Winter 1987, guest-edited by Bill Knott. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles.

This classic all-poetry issue, guest-edited by poet Bill Knott, features the work of a number of outstanding poets, including Gary Soto, Sharon Olds, Mary Oliver, Charles Simic, Denise Duhamel, and many others. There is also a spotlight on the English poet Craig Raine, featuring appreciations by Mary Karr, Seamus Heaney, and Sven Birkerts.

POETRY AND PROSE
Ai, “Family Portrait,” “Boys & Girls, Lenny Bruce, or Back From the Dead”
Marvin Bell, Three Poems
Star Black, “Rendezvous”
Karen Brennan, “A Beautiful Way of Looking at Something Starts,” “The Black Puppy Story”
Melissa Brown, “Trinity Street”
Revecca Byrkit, “The Effluvial Mood”
Andrea Cohen, “Story of the Tattoo”
Martha Collins, “Slug”
Mary Cross, “I Am Told”
Michael Cuddihy, “In Ignorance,” “Bread”
Stephen Dobyns, Three Poems
Denise Duhamel, “On Being Born the Same Eact Day of the Same Exact Year as Boy George”
Elaine Equi, “Cannibals in Space,” “Aperture”
Gao Fa-lin, “Iron Meteorite”
Linda Gregg, “Night Music”
Joy Harjo, “Hieroglyphic”
Erica John, “The Land of Fuck”
Mary Karr, “Sad Rite”
Claudia Keelan, “Towards”
Nancy Lagomarsino, “On Skimming an Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry
400-Yard Girls' Relay”
Lyn Lifshin, Three Poems
Ginny MacKenzie, “Aunt Lena Is Committed to Bellefonte State Hospital”
Kevin Magee, “The Boss & His Beauty,” “After Whitman ”
Paul Mariani, “The Gospel According to Walter,” “Landscape With Visionary Blue”
Sandra McPherson, “Ridge Road,” “Sonnet for a Singer”
Steffen Mensching, “Mayakowski's Vacation with Lilya and Ossip Brik, Summer of 1929,” “Siqueiros: Our Countenance”
Michael Milburn, “The Funeral”
Barbara Molloy-Olund, “Night and Effort”
Karen Ohnesorge-Fick, “Ma's Ghost”
Sharon Olds, Four Poems
Mary Oliver, “Maybe”
Gregory Orr, “The City and the Barbarians”
Bob Perelman, Three Poems
Robert Polito, “Cathy's Braces”
Robin Reagler, “Big Swim”
Donald Revell, “Polygamy”
Sarah Rosenblatt, "Should I Stay or Should I Go?," “Past Closing Time”
Karl Rosenquist, “Black and White Dream”
Jerome Sala, Three Poems
Tomaz Salamun, “The Blue Vault”
Lloyd Schwartz, “Pseudodoxia Epidemica”
R. D. Shipp, “Suspects”
Charles Simic, “First Thing in the Morning,” “The Gods”
JIm Simmerman, “The Public Job of Blood”
Michelle Blake Simons, “The Fourth Wall”
Gary Soto, Three Poems
John Tarver, “No Time”
Mona Van Duyn, “Mockingbird Month”
Peter Viereck, Three Poems
Rebecca Weiner, “The Payment”
Mary Karr, “An Interview with Craig Raine”
Thomas Lux, “On Craig Raine”
Sven Birkerts, “Craig Raine's ‘In the Kalahari Desert’”
Seamus Hea