Ploughshares Spring 2000 Guest-Edited by Paul Muldoon

The Spring 2000 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Paul Muldoon. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles.Full Table of ContentsINTRODUCTIONPaul MuldoonFICTION"Quality Time," by Russell Banks"Broth of Heaven," by Lan Samantha Chang"Labors of the Heart," by Claire David"Balkan Journal, 1944," by Edmund Keeley"Cleanness," by James Lasdun"A Testicular Self-Examination," by Kevin MxIlvoy"Mondo Zapruder," by Pedro Ponce"A Picture of Time" and "Wild Life" by Lynne TillmanExcerpt from The Married Man by Edmund White"The Story of the Deep Dark," by Julia WhittyDRAMA"The Playwright and the Blond Actress," by Joyce Carol OatesPOETRYWilliam AllenNin AndrewsMary Jo BangCathy BowmanChristopher CahillTina ChangKillarney ClarySteven CramerJohn D'AgataMeredith DrumDavid FrancisDaisy FriedDouglas GoetschStuart GreenhouseJohn HoppenthalerCynthia HuntingtonTroy JollimoreYusef KomunyakaaNicole KraussMelissa KwasnyTimothy LiuCate MarvinWalt McDonaldMelissa MonroeEmily MooreToni MorrisonRobert NazareneSalvatore QuasimodoJames RIchardsonCatie RosemurgyJ. Allyn ROsserStephen SandyLisa SewellFaith ShearinLaurie SheckReginald ShepherdTerese SvobodaBill SweeneyPaula TatarunisAlpay UlkuNance Van WinckelA.J. VerdelleLiz WaldnerRenée & Theodore WeissSusan WheelerC. K. WilliamsTheodore WorozbytEDITOR PROFILESven Birkerts