Ploughshares Spring 1987 Guest-Edited by Derek Walcott

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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.

This 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."

INTRODUCTION
Derek Walcott

POETRY
Katy Aisenberg, “Excavations”
Randall Barfield, “Armero,” “Colombia”
Robert Bensen, “We've Been Domesticated, I Tell You”
Lucie Brock-Broido, “Magnum Mysterium,” “Domestic Mysticism”
Joseph Brodsky, “Lithuanian Nocturne,” “The Fifth Anniversary”
Teresa Cader, “Open Letter to the Polish Government, 1986”
Stuart Dischell, “Macbeth”
Rita Dove, Three Poems
Stephen Dunn, “The Listener”
Carol Frost, “Acorns,” “In Scarecrow's Garden”
Barry Goldensohn, “Great Horned Owl,” “You Are Not Yet Asleep”
Jorie Graham, Three Poems
Michael S. Harper, Three Poems
Seamus Heaney, “Inferno III”
Garrett Kaoru Hongo, “’Pinoy’ at the Coming World”
Marie Howe, “How Many Times”
Andrew Hudgins, “A Christian on the Marsh”
Colette Inez, “Naming the Moons,” “Daughter's Photo in an Old Folks' Home”
George Kalogeris, Three Poems
Gary Keenan, “July 4, 1984”
Dan Masterson, “Heron”
Askold Melnyczuk, “And So,” “Forsythia”
Sue Owen, “The Wolf,” “My Name Is Snow”
Lawrence Pitkethly, “Return of the Native”
Jennifer Rose, Three Poems
Mary Ruefle, Five Poems
Miriam Sagan, “Full Moon: Ceremony,” “All Hallows”
Robert B. Shaw, “Degrees of Resolution”
Gerald Stern, “There I Was One Day,” “Bob Summers' Body”
Terese Svoboda, “Laughing Africa”
James Tate, “Under Mounting Pressure”
Rosanna Warren, “Ice,” “Daily Mail”
Nancy White, Three Poems