Ploughshares Summer 1981 Guest-Edited by Alan Williamson

The Summer 1981 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Alan Williamson. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles.

Table of Contents

FICTION
"The Use of Her Estate," by John Casey
"Moonlight," by Richard Wertime
Excerpt from "An Iron Year," by Anne Winters

NONFICTION
"A Conversation with Allen Grossman Concerning 'Of The Great House,'" by Mark Halliday
"What the Signs of Promise Are," by Paul Breslin

POETRY
Allen Grossman
Eleanor Ross Taylor
James Merrill
Alfred Corn
Rachel Hadas
James Richardson
Robert Marteau

Anne Winters
Miodrag Pavlovic

Richard Tillinghast
Alan Williamson
Clayton Eshleman
Diane Wakoski
John Peck
Elizabeth Waterhouse
Alan Shapiro
Michael Parish
Langdon Hammer
Margo Lockwood
Richard Tillinghast
Paul Breslin
Peter Klappert
Gail Mazur
Robert Polito
J. D. McClatchy
Lloyd Schwartz
Joyce Peseroff
James McMichael
Steven Ablon
Mark Halliday

ART
"Pig in Grass," by Ralph Hamilton
"Photo Finish," by Ralph Hamilton
"Baseball Collision," by Ralph Hamilton
"Man Holding Up His Baby," by Ralph Hamilton