{"product_id":"2940148452829","title":"Ploughshares Spring 2004 Guest-Edited by Campbell McGrath","description":"The Spring 2004 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Campbell McGrath. 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\u003eEdited by award-winning poet Campbell McGrath (Seven Notebooks, In the Kingdom of the Sea Monkeys), this issue features new works from 2009 Inaugural Poet Elizabeth Alexander, Rick Moody (The Ice Storm), Robert Boswell (Century's Son, American Owned Love) Bob Hicok (Elegy Owned), and National Book Award Finalist Kevin Young (Ardency). McGrath asserts that his issue of Ploughshares is \"in touch with the evolving edge of America's cultural consciousness in a remarkable way,\" and \"preserves a vision of literature as an ingenious human invention among whose many functions fostering delight remains not only viable but essential.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINTRODUCTION\u003cbr\u003eCampbell McGrath\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFICTION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"City Bus,\" by Robert Boswell\u003cbr\u003e\"The Grotto,\" by Robert Olen Butler\u003cbr\u003e\"The Ashtray,\" by Rachel Carpenter\u003cbr\u003e\"Hangzhou 1925,\" by Lan Samantha Chang\u003cbr\u003e\"Swing,\" by Stuart Dybek\u003cbr\u003e\"The Free Library,\" by Rick Moody\u003cbr\u003e\"Boyfriends,\" by Cynthia Weiner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePOETRY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eElizabeth Alexander\u003cbr\u003eDick Allen\u003cbr\u003eSally Ball\u003cbr\u003eRichard Blanco\u003cbr\u003eRon Block\u003cbr\u003eCatherine Bowman\u003cbr\u003eNick Carbó\u003cbr\u003eScott Coffel\u003cbr\u003eMichael Collier\u003cbr\u003eCynie Cory\u003cbr\u003eJim Daniels\u003cbr\u003eDenise Duhamel\u003cbr\u003eEric Elshtain\u003cbr\u003eBeth Ann Fennelly\u003cbr\u003eDaisy Fried\u003cbr\u003eJohn Gallaher\u003cbr\u003eRobert Gibb\u003cbr\u003eBarbara Hamby\u003cbr\u003eKerry Hardie\u003cbr\u003eJames Harms\u003cbr\u003eLola Haskins\u003cbr\u003eBob Hicok\u003cbr\u003eTony Hoagland\u003cbr\u003eTung-Hui Hu\u003cbr\u003eSusan Hutton\u003cbr\u003eJonathan Johnson\u003cbr\u003ePeter Johnson\u003cbr\u003eDavid Keplinger\u003cbr\u003eDavid Kirby\u003cbr\u003eBill Knott\u003cbr\u003eSarah Magnuso\u003cbr\u003eDuibusui D. Martinez\u003cbr\u003eRita Maria Martinez\u003cbr\u003eJean Monahan\u003cbr\u003eAnder Monson\u003cbr\u003eWilliam Olsen\u003cbr\u003eBarbara J. Orton\u003cbr\u003eAlan Michael Parker\u003cbr\u003eRicardo Pau-Llosa\u003cbr\u003eKevin Prufer\u003cbr\u003eMaureen Seaton\u003cbr\u003eJay Snodgrass\u003cbr\u003eEleanor Stanford\u003cbr\u003eVirgil Suarez\u003cbr\u003eJennifer Tseng\u003cbr\u003eChase Twitchell\u003cbr\u003eKaren Volkman\u003cbr\u003eCharles Harper Webb\u003cbr\u003eKevin Young\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEDITOR PROFILE\u003cbr\u003eby Joel Brouwer","brand":"Ploughshares","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47072865812720,"sku":"2940148452829","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940148452829_p0.jpg?v=1764002817","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940148452829","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}