Ploughshares Fall 1975

The Fall 1975 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Frank Bidart. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles.Ploughshares' first double issue, this edition was guest-edited by three-time Pulitzer nominee Frank Bidart, whose chapbook, Music Like Dirt, was the only chapbook in history to receive a nomination. Esteemed poets Robert Pinsky and Lloyd Schwartz also compiled the work as Associate Editors. This issue features work from Nobel Prize winner Octavio Paz, National Book Award Winner David Ferry, Ruth Lilly Lifetime Poetry Prize Winner Eleanor Ross Taylor, and John Peck, as well as future Ploughshares Guest-Editors Mark Strand and Joyce Peseroff, making this prodigious volume a collection of true literary powerhouses. NONFICTION"A Few Quotations," by Frank Bidart"On First Meeting W.H. Auden," by John Malcolm Brinnin"Montale's Xenia, and "Impersonality," by F.R. Leavis"Remembering and Rereading Howl," by Donald Gertmenian"Questions of Memory - New Poems by Elizabeth Bishop," by David Kalstone"George Herbert, The Giver and the Gift," by William Nestrick"A Writer Is Born and Dies," by Ricardo da Silveira, Lobo Sternberg, & Carlos Drummond de Andrade"Eliot, Proust, Stein (Quotations)," by Lloyd SchwartzPOETRYJames MerrillOctavio PazElizabeth BishopJoyce PeseroffJohn PeckMark StrandRudy KikelAlan WilliamsonNancy Isaac KuriloffJames McMichaelRobert LowellEleanor Ross TaylorMargo LockwoodNicholas ChristopherConstance St. John MarchielRicardo da Silveira Lobo SternbergAlice MattisonRichard HowardJonathan GalassiBarry SpacksFrank BidartDavid FerryEugenio Montale & Jonathan GalassiPeter TaylorLloyd SchwartzElizabeth BishopPeter KaplanTodd BoliHorace & Reuben A. BrowerJ. V. CunninghamRobert PinskyCarlos Drummond de Andrade & Mark StrandTodd BoliART"The Awning at the Ritz," by Ralph Hamilton