Ploughshares Fall 1994 Guest-Edited by Rosellen Brown

The Fall 1994 issue of Ploughshares, guest edited by Rosellen Brown. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest edited serially by prominent writers who explore different and personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles.This is the first issue of Ploughshares dedicated solely to the personal essay, and subtitled "Intimate Exile." Acclaimed novelist, essayist, and poet Rosellen Brown writes in her introduction, "There's been great pleasure for me in assembling an issue of Ploughshares--the first devoted entirely to nonfiction--that includes considerations of intimate personal history, science, travel, the acquisition of language, religion, politics, food, pop culture, birth and dying, war, sex, friendship, and a little professional attention to literary matters as well. The manner in which these 'subjects' come under scrutiny ranges from the traditional 'well-made' construction to a few looser, associative flights that laugh in the earnest face of the (extended) five-paragraph theme." Featuring work from Charles Baxter, Frederick Busch, Rafael Campo, Michelle Cliff, Stephen Dunn, Kathleen Norris, Josip Novakovich, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Debra Spark. INTRODUCTIONRosellen BrownNONFICTION"Relics of Summer" by Frances Mayes"The Mistake Game" by Rodger Kamenetz"Why My Uncle Was Late for Breakfast" by Edith Milton"Last Things" by Debra Spark"My Good War" by Joseph Featherstone"Dysfunctional Narratives, or 'Mistakes Were Made'" by Charles Baxter"The Encroaching Southeast Asian Memories" by Faith Adiele"Meeting Mick Jagger" by Susan Jane Gilman"Degenerates" by Kathleen Norris"A Spare Umbrella" by Valerie Miner"My Week Aboard a UFO!!!" by Albert Goldbarth"This Is No Language" by Josip Novakovich"Holocaust Girls/Lemon" by S.L. Wisenberg"Belongings" by Susan Lester"Brother" by Jane Creighton"Poetry and Manners" by Stephen Dunn"The World and All Its Teeth" by Naomi Shihab Nye"Dora Rewriting Desiring to Heal" by Rafael Campo"History as Fiction, Fiction as History" by Michelle Cliff"Looking for a Lost House" by Suzanne Berne"Out of Control" by Frank DeSanto" A Memoir" by Lisa Cohen"Bad" by Frederick BuschPOSTSCRIPTCohen Award Cleopatra Mathis and Fred G. Leebron