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Ploughshares [#11, v 3 #3&4, Spring 1977] ed. Jane Shore & DeWitt Henry ($14.95, 294pp, tp, cover by Susan R. Z. Slovinsky)

• FICTION
172(7) • A Slip Up • John McGahern • ss
179(12) • The Plymouth Boat • R. D. Skillings • ss
191(15) • The Son She Has • Sheila McMillen • ss
206(17) • Negroes I Have Known • David Rosner • ss
223(20) • Applause, Applause • Jean Thompson • nv
243(4) • A Well Driller in the Rain • John Bart Gerald • ss
247(16) • The Man at the Gate • Lynne Sharon Schwartz • ss
263(22) • Bodies Like Mouths • John J. Clayton • nv
• POETRY
53(1) • Provincetown: February • Vanessa Ryder • pm
54(1) • Illumination from a Psalter • Vanessa Ryder • pm
55(2) • New Neighbors in the South • Maura Stanton • pm
56(2) • Bathroom Walls • Maura Stanton • pm
57(2) • Circles • Maura Stanton • pm
59(2) • The Luminist at Age Eleven • Pamela Stewart • pm
61(2) • Bufo Americanus • Margaret Smith • pm
63(2) • Dialogue • Richard Cecil • pm
65(3) • Chapter 2,Bettina • Judith Leet • pm
68(2) • After • Linda Pastan • pm
69(2) • Letter to a Son at Exam Time • Linda Pastan • pm
71(5) • 1805 Gratiot • Richard Hugo • pm
76(1) • Nameless • Michael Ryan • pm
77(1) • You Can Thank • Michael Ryan • pm
78(2) • Tarzan of the Sestina • Edward Diao • pm
80(2) • Beasts Belong To Themselves • Paul Nelson • pm
82(3) • Four Parts of a Thousand-Part Poem • Carole Oles • pm
84(2) • The Green Violinist • Carole Oles • pm
86(4) • The Aquarium Lessons • Mary Jo Salter • pm
90(1) • Flowers • Kathleen Spivack • pm
92(3) • The Lake Utopia of Soren Kierkegaard • Norman Dubie • pm
95(2) • Plumbing the Silence • Marguerite Guzman Bouvard • pm
97(4) • The Dream, The Tool • Kristina McGrath • pm
101(1) • The Marsh • Beatrice Hawley • pm
102(2) • Letter for a Daughter • Lorrie Goldensohn • pm
104(1) • Sleeping Beauty • Debora Greger • pm
105(4) • Lovers in a Garden • Miriam Sagan • pm
109(2) • Reply to My Uncle Joseph • Anne Whitehouse • pm
111(2) • We Keep Her in a Box • Betsy Sholl • pm
113(4) • Tamsen Donner Crosses The Great Salt Desert • Ruth Whitman • pm
117(2) • Living Among People With Many Faults • Ron Slate • pm
119(3) • Glossary of Terms for Chapter Forty • Gina White • pm
122(1) • The Yeti • Mark O’Donnell • pm
123(2) • The Perfect Crime • Edward Dooley • pm
125(1) • Dolls • Jack Anderson • pm
126(1) • Conviction • John Skoyles • pm
127(2) • Putting Mother By • Dona Stein • pm
129(2) • Attempt to Convince Somebody of Something • Michael Benedikt • pm
131(1) • Maybe a Bird • Merrill Kaitz • pm
132(1) • How I decided to settle in New Hampshire • Frederick Will • pm
133(2) • Questions • Ricardo da Silveira Lobo Sternberg • pm
135(1) • For Bartleby the Scrivener • Billy Collins • pm
136(3) • Omassum • Roger Weingarten • pm
139(1) • Capitalist Bestiary I: Yankee Trader • Kathryn Van Spanckeren • pm
140(1) • The Short Flight • Cora Brooks • pm
141(1) • The Life-Giving • Brad Leithauser • pm
143(2) • The Priest • Frederick Morgan • pm
145(4) • The Skywriter • George Colt • pm
149(1) • Landmarks • Daniel Halpern • pm
150(1) • Resting Place • Tom Absher • pm
151(1) • Dying on a Seldom-Traveled Road • David McCann • pm
152(1) • The Interior • Helene Davis • pm
153(1) • Fishes • Marian Taylor • pm
154(2) • Love Poem—Describing the Austere Comfort of the Dream in Which Nothing Is Named • John Engels • pm
156(3) • Letter to Heather • Nina Rubinstein Alonso • pm
159(1) • Words • John Maloney • pm
160(2) • Our Other Mind Problem • Barry Goldensohn • pm
162(1) • Green, A Chance • Jeff Silva • pm
163(4) • the world of apples • Alvin Greenberg • pm
167(2) • Less of the Same • James Richardson • pm
169(3) • Constantly • Jane Shore • pm
• NONFICTION
11(19) • “The Work!”: A Conversation with Elizabeth Bishop • George Starbuck • iv
30(23) • One Art: The Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop, 1971-1976 • Lloyd Schwartz • ar
• BOOKSHELF
285(3) • rev. of The Easter Parade by Richard Yates • Hilma Wolitzer • br
288(7) • rev. of Ladder of the World’s Joy by Sarah Appleton • Peggy Rizza • br
288(7) • rev. of Personal Effects by Robin Becker, Helena Minton, and Marilyn Zuckerman • Peggy Rizza • br
288(7) • rev. of Letter from an Outlying Province by Patricia Cumming • Peggy Rizza • br
288(7) • rev. of Hush by David St. John • Peggy Rizza • br
288(7) • rev. of Invisibilities by Douglas Worth • Peggy Rizza • br
294(6) • Contributors’ Notes • Misc. Material • bg

Ploughshares [#12, v 4 #1, Fall 1977] ed. James Randall, DeWitt Henry & Tim O’Brien ($14.95, 174pp, tp, cover by Michael Mazur)

• FICTION
103(12) • Vigilance • John Irving • ss
115(17) • Getting It On • Anne Bernays • ss
132(11) • Religious Instructions • Jack Pulaski • ss
143(7) • Snow Geese • Wendy Lamb • ss
• POETRY
38(1) • Poem • Bill Knott • pm
39(1) • Where • Bill Knott • pm
40(1) • The Stillborn (Domesticity #3) • Bill Knott • pm
41(1) • Song • Bill Knott • pm
42(1) • For Anne • Bill Knott • pm
43(5) • from Returning to Earth • Jim Harrison • pm
48(2) • Wasps • Larry Levis • pm
49(1) • Soon • Larry Levis • pm
50(1) • Road, Hog, Assassin, Mirror • Larry Levis • pm
51(1) • Portrait of the Man Who Drowned Wearing His Best Suit and Shoes • Thomas Lux • pm
52(1) • Lament for the Friend Who Lost His Brother • Thomas Lux • pm
53(1) • The Hunting • Thomas Lux • pm
54(1) • Dimly Outlined by a Police Artist • Charles Simic • pm
55(1) • The Great Anonymous Eye and Ear • Charles Simic • pm
56(1) • Photographer’s Hood • Charles Simic • pm
57(1) • A Day Without Poetry • Richard Lourie • pm
58(2) • May Day, My Thirty-third • William Doreski • pm
60(11) • “Kannst du die alten Lieder noch Spielen?” • John Ashbery • pm
71(1) • “Prisons Are Labyrinths” • Tim Reynolds • pm
72(1) • “Basho Stood on This Same Bridge” • Tim Reynolds • pm
72(1) • A Hieroglyph for Rexroth • Tim Reynolds • pm
73(3) • Marichi • Kenneth Rexroth • pm
76(2) • A Poem to Go Before Eight Lines by Jalal-ud-din-Rumi • Richard Tillinghast • pm
78(2) • An Encounter On Exmoor • Anne S. Perlman • pm
80(1) • John Muir • Peter Wild • pm
81(2) • Blue Angel • Miriam Levine • pm
83(3) • Baseball • Gail Mazur • pm
86(1) • Jerusalem • Ruth Lepson • pm
87(1) • Another Woman Who Marries Her House Poem • Lyn Lifshin • pm
88(1) • Cape Cod 1970 • Lyn Lifshin • pm
89(1) • At Home, Far Away Inside • Thomas McAfee • pm
90(2) • To the Welcome Wagon Lady • Harold Bond • pm
91(2) • The Fall • Harold Bond • pm
93(2) • Return to an Island • Jean Burden • pm
95(1) • Scott Huff • Leo Connellan • pm
96(1) • Since Nothing Is Impossible • Michael Waters • pm
97(1) • The Traveler • Cleopatra Mathis • pm
98(2) • Who is This Judi’s Jack? • Kim Frielich • pm
100(2) • The Train Wreck • Marcia Southwick • pm
101(1) • The Arsonist • Marcia Southwick • pm
102(1) • The Earth Swept Clean • David Leviten • pm
151(2) • Beating a Fast Tattoo • Mary Marta Anderson • pm
153(1) • To the Savage Child • John Mahnke • pm
154(1) • Win A Vigil • John Mahnke • pm
155(1) • The Piney Forest • Peggy Janey • pm
156(1) • The Young Girl’s Dream • Peggy Janey • pm
157(2) • Convict’s Mirror • Sue Standing • pm
159(1) • Visitor in the Cadaver Room • Donna Gordon • pm
160(1) • village night • Anneliese Wagner • pm
161(1) • Full Moons • Steve Blevins • pm
162(1) • The Cat That Ate The Flower... • Janet Thomas • pm
163(5) • Insomnia VII • Julianne Gavin • pm
168(1) • After the Storm • Anne Barbernitz • pm
169(1) • Arcane Processional • Dianne Marcotti • pm
170(1) • He weeds the clouds • Denis Leary • pm
171(1) • the rabbits • Denis Leary • pm
172(1) • A Message • Stephen Collins • pm
172(1) • Translation of a German Zeppelin Poster • Kevin Kusinitz • pm
• NONFICTION
9(16) • An Interview with Bill Knott • James Randall • iv
25(13) • For Bill Knott: In Celebration and Anticipation of His Selected/Collected Poems • Thomas Lux • ar
• MISC.
150(1) • Discovery Section Introduction • James Randall • si
173(4) • Contributors’ Notes • Misc. Material • bg

Ploughshares [#13, v 4 #2, Spring 1978] ed. Rosellen Brown, DeWitt Henry & Andre Dubus ($14.95, 154pp, tp, cover by Susan R. Z. Slovinsky)

• FICTION
43(18) • Duck Season • T. Alan Broughton • ss
61(13) • Company • Frederick Busch • ss
74(14) • Static Discharge • Lew McCreary • ss
88(17) • The Garden Wall • John Bovey • ss
105(11) • Gemcrack • Jayne Anne Phillips • ss
116(16) • Nine Months in a Small Town • Pamela Richards • ss
132(11) • Ned • Ellen Wilbur • ss
143(11) • Travelling • Mary Peterson • ss
• POETRY
22(2) • The Romance of the Reminiscence • Ira Sadoff • pm
24(1) • To His Feminine Self • Michael Benedikt • pm
25(2) • The House-Painter • Richard Harteis • pm
27(2) • Swan Song • Askold Melnyczuk • pm
29(1) • Hannah • Lloyd Schwartz • pm
30(6) • Seven Variations on Robert Schumann • Ruth Whitman • pm
36(3) • The Toll of Industry • Deborah Pease • pm
39(1) • Possessions: Randall Jarrell • Elaine Epstein • pm
40(3) • Big Sheep Knocks You About • Sharon Bryan • pm
• NONFICTION
9(13) • Notes on This Issue’s Issue • Rosellen Brown • ms
154(2) • Contributors’ Notes • Misc. Material • bg

Ploughshares [#14, v 4 #3, Fall 1978] ed. DeWitt Henry ($14.95, 212pp, tp, cover by Susan R. Z. Slovinsky)

• FICTION
72(11) • Characters • Alice Munro • nv
91(24) • A Record As Long As Your Arm • George Garrett • nv
175(9) • Obligato • Eve Shelnutt • ss
• POETRY
25(2) • Persistence • Anthony Hecht • pm
27(2) • House Sparrows • Anthony Hecht • pm
29(2) • The Lull • Anthony Hecht • pm
45(4) • Letters From a Father • Mona Van Duyn • pm
49(2) • Madrid, 1977 • Mona Van Duyn • pm
51(2) • Goya’s “Two Old People Eating Soup” • Mona Van Duyn • pm
53(3) • Speak, Memory! • Mona Van Duyn • pm
• NONFICTION
9(16) • The Poetry of Anthony Hecht • Ashley Brown • ar
31(14) • Mona Van Duyn and the Politics of Love • Lorrie Goldensohn • ar
56(16) • The Fiction of Alice Munro • Hallvard Dahlie • ar
83(8) • The Short Fiction of George Garrett • William Peden • ar
115(7) • Notes away from the Definition of Major and Minor • Christopher Ricks • ar
122(8) • The Mumbling of Young Werther: Angst by Blueprint in Contemporary Poetry • Brendan Galvin • ar
130(17) • The Golden Age of the American Novel • Roger Sale • ar
147(9) • The Criticism of Martin Green (with Gayarti Acharya) • Linda Bamber • ar
156(13) • Philip Roth • Martin Green • ar
169(6) • Eve Shelnutt’s The Love Child • Fred Chappell • ar
184(3) • Joyce Peseroff’s The Hardness Scale • Robert Pinsky • ar
187(3) • Charles Martin’s Room for Error • Robert Hass • ar
190(8) • “Magical Strength in the Human Heart” • Carter Wilson • ar
198(6) • Comfort and Wilderness: Robert B. Shaw • Paul Breslin • ar
204(5) • The Poetry of G.F. Dutton • Anne Stevenson • ar
209(3) • On Anne Stevenson • Jay Parini • ar
212(2) • Contributors’ Notes • Misc. Material • bg

Ploughshares [#15, v 4 #4, Winter 1978] ed. Tim O’Brien & DeWitt Henry ($14.95, 210pp, tp, cover by Susan R. Z. Slovinsky)

• FICTION
9(11) • Davidson Among the Chosen • Philip Damon • ss
20(13) • The Wife’s Tale • Richard Bausch • ss
33(17) • What is Left to Link Us • Gordon Lish • ss
50(13) • Surviving the Flood • Stephen Minot • ss
63(11) • The Legacy of Beau Kremel • Stephen Wolf • ss
74(13) • The Tag Match • Joseph Maiolo • ss
87(25) • Uncle Nathan • Jay Neugeboren • nv
112(15) • The Cold • Gordon Weaver • ss
127(18) • El Paso • Jayne Anne Phillips • ss
145(64) • The Undesirable • David Huddle • na
209(2) • Contributors’ Notes • Misc. Material • bg

Ploughshares [#16, v 5 #1, Spring 1979] ed. Ellen Bryant Voigt & Lorrie Goldensohn ($14.95, 244pp, tp)

• POETRY
11(1) • August • Tom Absher • pm
12(1) • Hunting With My Father • Tom Absher • pm
13(1) • Vespers • Tom Absher • pm
14(1) • The Lost Colony • Angela Ball • pm
15(1) • Gathering • Jane Barnes • pm
16(2) • Truckers and Literary Intellectuals • Michael Benedikt • pm
18(1) • For the Father • Suzanne E. Berger • pm
19(2) • Your Life: An Invention • Suzanne E. Berger • pm
21(1) • On Renoir’s “The Grape-Pickers’ • Eavan Boland • pm
22(2) • Farming and Dreaming • Kathy Callaway • pm
24(1) • The Sleeper • Kathy Callaway • pm
25(2) • Staple Supplies • Kathy Callaway • pm
27(1) • On a Human Scale • Ann Fox Chandonnet • pm
28(1) • Haymarket Street • Steven Cramer • pm
29(1) • Seeds • Jennifer Crewe • pm
30(2) • After a Certain Number of Years, the Light Changes • Mary Crow • pm
32(2) • Steerage • W. S. Di Piero • pm
34(2) • Aurelio • W. S. Di Piero • pm
36(3) • Separations • Stephen Dobyns • pm
39(1) • Divining Rod • Jeanne Dowd • pm
40(2) • Joseph • Lorrie Goldensohn • pm
41(2) • Beauty and the Beast • Lorrie Goldensohn • pm
43(1) • October • Sarah Gorham • pm
44(2) • Mother in the Garden • Sarah Gorham • pm
46(1) • Verendrye: A Waterway to the West • Sarah Gorham • pm
47(1) • Sampler • Sarah Gorham • pm
48(2) • I Was Taught Three • Jorie Graham • pm
49(2) • In High Waters • Jorie Graham • pm
51(2) • The Extended Night • Jeffrey Green • pm
53(1) • How It Is • Barbara Greenberg • pm
54(1) • Son • Barbara Greenberg • pm
55(1) • Attachments • Barbara Greenberg • pm
56(1) • Russia, Morocco, Peru • Linda Gregerson • pm
57(1) • from a Sequence for My Daughter • Marilyn Hacker • pm
58(1) • Twenty-five Years • Donald Hall • pm
59(1) • The Dead at the Picnic • Jim Hall • pm
60(1) • The Hair Contest • Jim Hall • pm
61(3) • Thorn • Carol Baker Hansen • pm
63(1) • Tongue • Carol Baker Hansen • pm
64(1) • Letter to My Mother • Madeleine Hennessy • pm
65(1) • Ice Storm • Adam LeFevre • pm
66(1) • Calling • Adam LeFevre • pm
66(2) • Coeymans • Adam LeFevre • pm
68(1) • Home Birth • Nancy Sherman Lewis • pm
69(1) • At Dusk, Your Child is Asleep in the Grass • Nancy Sherman Lewis • pm
70(1) • Weeds • Nancy Sherman Lewis • pm
71(1) • The Fifth Season • Fran Lindsay • pm
72(1) • Mother and Daughter Photographs • Lyn Lifshin • pm
73(2) • Julys in the Rose Light House • Lyn Lifshin • pm
75(2) • At a Time of the Year • Judith Kroll • pm
77(1) • Moon in Aquarius • Linda McCarriston • pm
78(1) • Eve • Linda McCarriston • pm
78(1) • Desire • Linda McCarriston • pm
79(1) • The Cleaving • Linda McCarriston • pm
80(1) • Intent • Linda McCarriston • pm
81(1) • Shrimpboat • Gardner McFall • pm
82(1) • After Thanksgiving • Gardner McFall • pm
83(1) • Message at Sunset for Bishop Berkeley • Heather McHugh • pm
84(1) • Eavesdropping at the Swim Club, 1934 • Jane Miller • pm
85(1) • A Dream of Broken Glass • Jane Miller • pm
86(1) • Without a Name for This • Jane Miller • pm
87(1) • Scene • Jane Miller • pm
88(1) • The Bat In His Room • Paul Nelson • pm
89(1) • The Lost World • Paul Nelson • pm
90(2) • Meeting With Snakes • Richard Nester • pm
92(2) • William Harrison Slucher, 1889-1961 • Richard Nester • pm
94(1) • Ulysses Simpson Grant 1822-1885 • Richard Nester • pm
95(1) • Dune Grass • Richard Nester • pm
96(2) • Listening • Mary Oliver • pm
98(1) • The Black Snake • Mary Oliver • pm
99(1) • Driving through Nebraska • Bea Opengart • pm
100(3) • Anecdote of the Stolen Coins • Nina Payne • pm
103(1) • Grazing • Nina Payne • pm
104(1) • Poem For Exchange of Habitat • Paula Rankin • pm
105(1) • In the Calendar Square of the Dream • Paula Rankin • pm
106(1) • Love Poem • Susan Irene Rea • pm
107(2) • Fishing • Carol Ann Russell • pm
109(1) • All the Time • Michael Ryan • pm
110(2) • The Story of Bread • Herbert Scott • pm
112(1) • Mezuzah • Alan Shapiro • pm
113(2) • The Cruise • Laurie Sheck • pm
114(2) • Psyche • Laurie Sheck • pm
116(8) • Breech: Birth: Dream • Dave Smith • pm
124(3) • The Delta Parade • Susan Stewart • pm
127(2) • Landscape with Bride • Dona Stein • pm
129(1) • Shovels • Dona Stein • pm
130(1) • Turntables • Dabney Stuart • pm
131(1) • Baby and Child Care • Dabney Stuart • pm
132(2) • A Figure on the Ice • Dabney Stuart • pm
134(2) • For Marcus Lynch • Mary Swander • pm
136(1) • Summer in Bodines • Elaine Terranova • pm
137(1) • Alcestis • Elaine Terranova • pm
138(1) • The Walk to the Castle • Elaine Terranova • pm
139(2) • Some Observations by a Newlywed • Michael Van Walleghen • pm
140(2) • Painting the Picture • Michael Van Walleghen • pm
142(2) • Crabapples • Michael Van Walleghen • pm
144(1) • The Gymnast • Ellen Bryant Voigt • pm
145(2) • German Shepherds • Peter Wild • pm
• NONFICTION
147(13) • The Disappearance of Weldon Kees • Sharon Mayer Libera • ar
160(12) • Two Strains: Some Thoughts About English Words • Lisel Mueller • ar
172(6) • “To Study Our Lives” • Wendy Martin • ar
178(14) • Elizabeth Bishop: The Art of Changing Your Mind • Jane Shore • ar
192(10) • Sandra McPherson: The Year of Our Birth • Paul Nelson • ar
202(39) • Through the Looking Glass: The Romance of the Perceptual in Contemporary Poetry • Mary Kinzie • ar
241(4) • Contributors’ Notes • Misc. Material • bg

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