Ploughshares Spring 2007 Guest-Edited by Edward Hirsch

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The Spring 2007 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Edward Hirsch. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles.

Guest-edited by poet and critic Edward Hirsch , the Spring 2007 issue of Ploughshares contains prose and poetry by such authors including Joyce Carol Oates, Patricia Hampl, Stuart Dybek, Jim Shepard, Philip Levine, Wislawa Szymborska, and Adam Zagajewski. In his Introduction to the issue, Hirsch says, "I want to send out this issue of Ploughshares in the high spirits of a Saturday morning in late March. I was alone and took a long walk by myself, but I also carried with me this surprising gathering of writers, this sudden congregation of solitaries, some from different countries, a few no longer living. It was solitude with others, some of whom scared me with their intensity, which is what one wants from art."

Full Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION
Edward Hirsch

EDITOR PROFILE
Brian Barker

FICTION

"Ghosts," by Charles Baxter
"Closely Held," by Allegra Goodman
"Winter Worm, Summer Weed," by Xiaolu Guo
"Goat," by Beena Kamlani
"Hi Howya Doin," by Joyce Carol Oates
"Pleasure Boating in Lituya Bay," by Jim Shepard
"Dressing Up," by Maxine Swann

NONFICTION

"Dead of the Night," by Patricia Hampl

POETRY

Marjorie Agosin
Marianne Boruch
David Bottoms
Yiorgos Chouliaras
Nicholas Christopher
Victoria Clausi
Michael Collier
Josephine Dickinson
Stuart Dybek
Robin Ekiss
Gary Fincke
Chris Forhan
Judith Hall
Patrick Hicks
Bob Hicok
Garrett Hongo
Maria Hummel
Ryszard Krynicki
Philip Levine
Bronislaw Maj
Corey Marks
Cate Marvin
James McCorkle
Michael Milburn
Eugenio Montejo
Muriel Nelson
Debra Nystrom
Jiri Orten
Jacqueline Osherow
Sue Owen
Elizabeth Powell
Len Roberts
John Rybicki
Caroline Sanderson
Philip Schultz
Vijay Seshadri
Jason Shinder
Ron Slate
Ann Snodgrass
Susan Stewart
Dan Stryk
Wislawa Szymborksa
Daniel Tobin
David Wagoner
Charles Harper Webb
George Witte
Valerie Wohlfeld
Kevin Young
Adam Zagajewski

EDITORS' SHELF