{"product_id":"2940014940900","title":"Ploughshares Fall 1986 Guest-Edited by Charles Simic","description":"An issue of Ploughshares from Fall 1986, guest-edited by Charles Simic. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis classic poetry issue, with select nonfiction, is guest-edited by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Charles Simic, and features the work of a number of masters including Joyce Carol Oates, Mary Karr, Philip Levine, Thomas Lux, Franz Wright, Al Young, and Stephen Dobyns. This issue also contains the nonfiction work by Mark Strand, Fanny Howe, William Corbett, and Richard Jackson.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINTRODUCTION \u003cbr\u003eCharles Simic, “Why I Like Certain Poems More Than Others”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePOETRY AND PROSE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMark Strand, “Narrative Poetry”\u003cbr\u003ePhilip Levine, “Picture Postcard from the Other World”\u003cbr\u003eLinda Pastan, Three Poems\u003cbr\u003eThomas Lux, Four Poems\u003cbr\u003eElizabeth Tornes, Four Poems\u003cbr\u003eWilliam Matthews, “Self-Knowledge,” “Schoolboys with Dog, Winter”\u003cbr\u003eCleopatra Mathis, “A Seasonal Record”\u003cbr\u003eCharles Wright, from “A Journal of the Year of the Ox”\u003cbr\u003eMekeel McBride, “Annunciation,” “Taking Pleasure”\u003cbr\u003eDaniel Halpern, “Tango,” “Stanzione”\u003cbr\u003eJane Kenyon, “With the Dog at Sunrise,” “Staying at Grandma's”\u003cbr\u003eC. K. Williams, Four Poems\u003cbr\u003eFanny Howe, “Secondary Indifferents”\u003cbr\u003eRussell Edson, Three Poems\u003cbr\u003eAl Young, from “22 Moon Poems”\u003cbr\u003eJames Tate, “Poem,” “Aunt Sophie's Morning”\u003cbr\u003eLynn Boulger, “The Power of Bridges”\u003cbr\u003eStephen Dobyns, Three Poems\u003cbr\u003eSarah Cotterill, “blue wing”\u003cbr\u003eGregory Orr, “To the Muse,” “Sex”\u003cbr\u003eMary Karr, “The Lynched Man”\u003cbr\u003eIra Sadoff, Three Poems\u003cbr\u003eRoberta Bienvenu, “This Garden”\u003cbr\u003eLucie Brock-Broido, “After the Grand Perhaps,” “Ten Years' Apprenticeship in Fantasy”\u003cbr\u003eWilliam Corbett, “Philip Guston 1913-1980”\u003cbr\u003eFranz Wright, “Winter Entries,” “The Talk”\u003cbr\u003eAlice B. Fogel, “Snowstorm”\u003cbr\u003eStuart Dischell, “Little Foot”\u003cbr\u003eAnne Zuckerman, “Night,” “Saint Francis”\u003cbr\u003eJonathan Aaron, “Then,” “The Fourth Grade”\u003cbr\u003eJames Kirk, “Cows in Snow”\u003cbr\u003eKaren Propp, “Who Sweeps the Sidewalk,” “Nothing But Heart”\u003cbr\u003eKenneth Rosen, “Sheep in Wales”\u003cbr\u003eDonald Hall, “'Richard'”\u003cbr\u003eGeorge Starbuck, Three Poems\u003cbr\u003eJohn Pijewski, Three Poems\u003cbr\u003eWilliam Corbett, “The New Selected William Carlos Williams”\u003cbr\u003eRichard Jackson, “Many Happy Returns: The Poetry of John Ashbery”","brand":"Ploughshares \/ Emerson College","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47074149040368,"sku":"2940014940900","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014940900_p0.jpg?v=1763617379","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014940900","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}