Ploughshares, Winter 1988

An issue of Ploughshares from Winter 1988, guest-edited by Philip Levine. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles.This classic collection of poetry and prose, guest-edited by Pulitzer Prize winner and 2011 Poet Laureate Philip Levine, features the work of Yusef Komunyaaka, Mary Karr, Jane Shore, Larry Levis, Fanny Howe, and many other talented poets and writers.PROSE AND POETRYS. A. Stirnemann, Three PoemsMark Jarman, “The Tuba Lesson,” “The Death of God”Nancy Schoenberger, “Men Were Swimming,” “The Great Indifference: Clouds Billowing Up”Larry Levis, “Three Illustrations”Michael Collier, “Territory,” “Skimming”Fanny Howe, “11/11”David Ray, “Isaac Again”Bin Ramke, “The Future of Supplication”Gail Mazur, “Poem Ending With Three Lines From Wordsworth,” “After the Storm, August”Dixie Lane, “You Are the Distance”Zona Teti, “Erosion”Joyce Carol Oates, “The Silence,” “The Consolation of Animals”Jane Shore, “Monday”Mary Karr, “Bad Family”Christopher Buckley, “Another Place and Time,” “Blackbirds in a Parking Lot, Southern California”James Haug, “Meeting Walter,” “A Song for Stolen Bread”Gloria Kurian Broder, “The Man Who Loved Detroit”Alicia Ostriker, “Surfer Days,” “From the Moon”Roberta Spear, “Conversions”Michael Sofranko, “Near Lone Tree,” “Happy to Have It”Robert McDowell, “What They Do at the New Church”Steve Kronen, “The Reverend Falwell Describes the Bakkers' Swimming Pool,” “Think of the Blackouts”Robert Vasquez, “Coyotes”Dean Young, “Memories of the Invisible Man”Colette Inez, “Aubade,” “Midwest Albas”James Finnegan, ‘The Tidepool,” “Seeing in the Dark”Thomas Emery, “Lou Labonte's Inn”B. H. Boston, “Processional,” “When the Train Comes”Roger Mitchell, “Seeing Some Feral Goats”David Barber, “Elegy for the Bad Uncles,” “Prospectus”Liza Wieland, “Lie Near”Linda Pastan, “Gleaning”Thomas Swick, “Martial Law Journal”Yusef Komunyakaa, “Venus's-flytraps”Dennis Sampson, “The Commandment”