Ploughshares Winter 1989 Guest-Edited by Marilyn Hacker

An issue of Ploughshares from Winter 1989, guest-edited Marilyn Hacker. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles.This classic issue, guest-edited by the poet Marilyn Hacker, explores the themes of diversity and adversity. “What is in our experience can enter the canon,” Hacker writes in her Introduction. “This is part of an American populist heritage that stubbornly refuses a disjunction between art and life: domestic, sexual, economic, and political life. As many poets here look out as they do look in.” The issue features the work of many established as well as lesser-known voices, including Hayden Carruth, May Swenson, Rita Dove, Alberto Rios, J. D. McClatchy, Toi Derricotte, and Eavan Boland. INTRODUCTION, Marilyn Hacker, “An Invitation to My Demented Uncle”POETRYNell AltizerRobert R. AndersonLee Harlin BahanJudith BarringtonMonica BarronRobin BeckerSophie Cabot BlackMaureen BloomfieldGoerge BoginEavan BolandBruce BondHayden CarruthCyrus CassellsMartha CollinsJane CooperAlfred CornJames CumminsAnn DarrRosemary DeenToi DerricotteMelvin DixonRita DoveCorneius EadyJulie FayCasey FinchSuzanne GardinierAlbert GoldbarthSara GorhamJessica GreenbaumThom GunnRachel HadasJoy HarjoGeorgia HeardAndrew HudginsGale JacksonJosephine JacobsenJudith Emlyn JohnsonYusef KomunyakaaAnn LauterbackJan Heller LeviChris LlewellynPhoebe LordHerbert Woodward MartinJ. D. McClatchyColleen J. McElroyKaren L. MitchellHonor MooreThylias MossEileen MylesAlice NotleyNina NyhartMary OliverAntonia Quintana PignoKenneth PitchfordMarie PonsotAmanda PowellMinnie Bruce PrattJulia Randall, “In Memory of Francis Fergusson (1904-1986),” “Twenty-One Turkeys”Maomi ReplanskyAlberto RíosKarl RosenquistMark RudmanJerry SantekMaureen SeatonHugh SeidmanRobyn SelmanAnita SkeenLinda SmuklerPatricia StoraceTerese SvobodaMay SwensonLorenzo ThomasPatricia TraxlerQuincy TroupeKim VaethLaWanda WaltersMarilyn Nelson WaniekRuth Whitman