Ploughshares Winter 1989 Guest-Edited by Marilyn Hacker

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An issue of Ploughshares from Winter 1989, guest-edited Marilyn Hacker. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles.

This classic issue, guest-edited by the poet Marilyn Hacker, explores the themes of diversity and adversity. “What is in our experience can enter the canon,” Hacker writes in her Introduction. “This is part of an American populist heritage that stubbornly refuses a disjunction between art and life: domestic, sexual, economic, and political life. As many poets here look out as they do look in.”

The issue features the work of many established as well as lesser-known voices, including Hayden Carruth, May Swenson, Rita Dove, Alberto Rios, J. D. McClatchy, Toi Derricotte, and Eavan Boland.

INTRODUCTION,
Marilyn Hacker, “An Invitation to My Demented Uncle”

POETRY
Nell Altizer
Robert R. Anderson
Lee Harlin Bahan
Judith Barrington
Monica Barron
Robin Becker
Sophie Cabot Black
Maureen Bloomfield
Goerge Bogin
Eavan Boland
Bruce Bond
Hayden Carruth
Cyrus Cassells
Martha Collins
Jane Cooper
Alfred Corn
James Cummins
Ann Darr
Rosemary Deen
Toi Derricotte
Melvin Dixon
Rita Dove
Corneius Eady
Julie Fay
Casey Finch
Suzanne Gardinier
Albert Goldbarth
Sara Gorham
Jessica Greenbaum
Thom Gunn
Rachel Hadas
Joy Harjo
Georgia Heard
Andrew Hudgins
Gale Jackson
Josephine Jacobsen
Judith Emlyn Johnson
Yusef Komunyakaa
Ann Lauterback
Jan Heller Levi
Chris Llewellyn
Phoebe Lord
Herbert Woodward Martin
J. D. McClatchy
Colleen J. McElroy
Karen L. Mitchell
Honor Moore
Thylias Moss
Eileen Myles
Alice Notley
Nina Nyhart
Mary Oliver
Antonia Quintana Pigno
Kenneth Pitchford
Marie Ponsot
Amanda Powell
Minnie Bruce Pratt
Julia Randall, “In Memory of Francis Fergusson ,” “Twenty-One Turkeys”
Maomi Replansky
Alberto Ríos
Karl Rosenquist
Mark Rudman
Jerry Santek
Maureen Seaton
Hugh Seidman
Robyn Selman
Anita Skeen
Linda Smukler
Patricia Storace
Terese Svoboda
May Swenson
Lorenzo Thomas
Patricia Traxler
Quincy Troupe
Kim Vaeth
LaWanda Walters
Marilyn Nelson Waniek
Ruth Whitman