{"product_id":"2940014941013","title":"Ploughshares Winter 1987: Poetry Issue","description":"An issue of Ploughshares from Winter 1987, guest-edited by Bill Knott. 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 poet Bill Knott, features the work of a number of outstanding poets, including Gary Soto, Sharon Olds, Mary Oliver, Charles Simic, Denise Duhamel, and many others. There is also a spotlight on the English poet Craig Raine, featuring appreciations by Mary Karr, Seamus Heaney, and Sven Birkerts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePOETRY AND PROSE\u003cbr\u003eAi, “Family Portrait,” “Boys \u0026amp; Girls, Lenny Bruce, or Back From the Dead”\u003cbr\u003eMarvin Bell, Three Poems\u003cbr\u003eStar Black, “Rendezvous”\u003cbr\u003eKaren Brennan, “A Beautiful Way of Looking at Something Starts,” “The Black Puppy Story”\u003cbr\u003eMelissa Brown, “Trinity Street”\u003cbr\u003eRevecca Byrkit, “The Effluvial Mood”\u003cbr\u003eAndrea Cohen, “Story of the Tattoo”\u003cbr\u003eMartha Collins, “Slug”\u003cbr\u003eMary Cross, “I Am Told”\u003cbr\u003eMichael Cuddihy, “In Ignorance,” “Bread”\u003cbr\u003eStephen Dobyns, Three Poems\u003cbr\u003eDenise Duhamel, “On Being Born the Same Eact Day of the Same Exact Year as Boy George”\u003cbr\u003eElaine Equi, “Cannibals in Space,” “Aperture”\u003cbr\u003eGao Fa-lin, “Iron Meteorite”\u003cbr\u003eLinda Gregg, “Night Music”\u003cbr\u003eJoy Harjo, “Hieroglyphic”\u003cbr\u003eErica John, “The Land of Fuck”\u003cbr\u003eMary Karr, “Sad Rite”\u003cbr\u003eClaudia Keelan, “Towards”\u003cbr\u003eNancy Lagomarsino, “On Skimming an Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry\u003cbr\u003e400-Yard Girls' Relay”\u003cbr\u003eLyn Lifshin, Three Poems\u003cbr\u003eGinny MacKenzie, “Aunt Lena Is Committed to Bellefonte State Hospital”\u003cbr\u003eKevin Magee, “The Boss \u0026amp; His Beauty,” “After Whitman (Gramsci's Whitman)”\u003cbr\u003ePaul Mariani, “The Gospel According to Walter,” “Landscape With Visionary Blue”\u003cbr\u003eSandra McPherson, “Ridge Road,” “Sonnet for a Singer”\u003cbr\u003eSteffen Mensching, “Mayakowski's Vacation with Lilya and Ossip Brik, Summer of 1929,” “Siqueiros: Our Countenance”\u003cbr\u003eMichael Milburn, “The Funeral”\u003cbr\u003eBarbara Molloy-Olund, “Night and Effort”\u003cbr\u003eKaren Ohnesorge-Fick, “Ma's Ghost”\u003cbr\u003eSharon Olds, Four Poems\u003cbr\u003eMary Oliver, “Maybe”\u003cbr\u003eGregory Orr, “The City and the Barbarians”\u003cbr\u003eBob Perelman, Three Poems\u003cbr\u003eRobert Polito, “Cathy's Braces”\u003cbr\u003eRobin Reagler, “Big Swim”\u003cbr\u003eDonald Revell, “Polygamy”\u003cbr\u003eSarah Rosenblatt, \"Should I Stay or Should I Go?,\" “Past Closing Time”\u003cbr\u003eKarl Rosenquist, “Black and White Dream”\u003cbr\u003eJerome Sala, Three Poems\u003cbr\u003eTomaz Salamun, “The Blue Vault”\u003cbr\u003eLloyd Schwartz, “Pseudodoxia Epidemica”\u003cbr\u003eR. D. Shipp, “Suspects”\u003cbr\u003eCharles Simic, “First Thing in the Morning,” “The Gods”\u003cbr\u003eJIm Simmerman, “The Public Job of Blood”\u003cbr\u003eMichelle Blake Simons, “The Fourth Wall”\u003cbr\u003eGary Soto, Three Poems\u003cbr\u003eJohn Tarver, “No Time”\u003cbr\u003eMona Van Duyn, “Mockingbird Month”\u003cbr\u003ePeter Viereck, Three Poems\u003cbr\u003eRebecca Weiner, “The Payment”\u003cbr\u003eMary Karr, “An Interview with Craig Raine”\u003cbr\u003eThomas Lux, “On Craig Raine”\u003cbr\u003eSven Birkerts, “Craig Raine's ‘In the Kalahari Desert’”\u003cbr\u003eSeamus Heaney, “The Glamour of Craig Raine”\u003cbr\u003eCraig Raine, “A Chest of Drawers”","brand":"Ploughshares \/ Emerson College","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47074152218864,"sku":"2940014941013","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014941013_p0.jpg?v=1763948194","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014941013","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}