{"product_id":"2940014940955","title":"Ploughshares Spring 1987: Poetry Issue","description":"An issue of Ploughshares from Spring 1987, guest-edited by Derek Walcott. 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 all-poetry issue, guest-edited by the Nobel Prize-winning poet and playwright Derek Walcott, features the work of a number of established masters as well as lesser-known poets. The issue includes work by Seamus Heaney, Rita Dove, Joseph Brodsky, Stephen Dunn, Rosanna Warren, Jorie Graham, and many others. As Walcott writes in his introductory note, \"My principle was affection, and affection meant variety, not theory.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINTRODUCTION\u003cbr\u003eDerek Walcott\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePOETRY\u003cbr\u003eKaty Aisenberg, “Excavations”\u003cbr\u003eRandall Barfield, “Armero,” “Colombia”\u003cbr\u003eRobert Bensen, “We've Been Domesticated, I Tell You”\u003cbr\u003eLucie Brock-Broido, “Magnum Mysterium,” “Domestic Mysticism”\u003cbr\u003eJoseph Brodsky, “Lithuanian Nocturne,” “The Fifth Anniversary”\u003cbr\u003eTeresa Cader, “Open Letter to the Polish Government, 1986”\u003cbr\u003eStuart Dischell, “Macbeth”\u003cbr\u003eRita Dove, Three Poems\u003cbr\u003eStephen Dunn, “The Listener”\u003cbr\u003eCarol Frost, “Acorns,” “In Scarecrow's Garden”\u003cbr\u003eBarry Goldensohn, “Great Horned Owl,” “You Are Not Yet Asleep”\u003cbr\u003eJorie Graham, Three Poems\u003cbr\u003eMichael S. Harper, Three Poems\u003cbr\u003eSeamus Heaney, “Inferno III”\u003cbr\u003eGarrett Kaoru Hongo, “’Pinoy’ at the Coming World”\u003cbr\u003eMarie Howe, “How Many Times”\u003cbr\u003eAndrew Hudgins, “A Christian on the Marsh”\u003cbr\u003eColette Inez, “Naming the Moons,” “Daughter's Photo in an Old Folks' Home”\u003cbr\u003eGeorge Kalogeris, Three Poems\u003cbr\u003eGary Keenan, “July 4, 1984”\u003cbr\u003eDan Masterson, “Heron”\u003cbr\u003eAskold Melnyczuk, “And So,” “Forsythia”\u003cbr\u003eSue Owen, “The Wolf,” “My Name Is Snow”\u003cbr\u003eLawrence Pitkethly, “Return of the Native”\u003cbr\u003eJennifer Rose, Three Poems\u003cbr\u003eMary Ruefle, Five Poems\u003cbr\u003eMiriam Sagan, “Full Moon: Ceremony,” “All Hallows”\u003cbr\u003eRobert B. Shaw, “Degrees of Resolution”\u003cbr\u003eGerald Stern, “There I Was One Day,” “Bob Summers' Body”\u003cbr\u003eTerese Svoboda, “Laughing Africa”\u003cbr\u003eJames Tate, “Under Mounting Pressure”\u003cbr\u003eRosanna Warren, “Ice,” “Daily Mail”\u003cbr\u003eNancy White, Three Poems","brand":"Ploughshares \/ Emerson College","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47074152022256,"sku":"2940014940955","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014940955_p0.jpg?v=1763946884","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014940955","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}