Ploughshares Summer 1972 Guest-Edited by George Kimball

by George Kimball (Editor), James Tate, Thomas Lux, Fanny Howe, David Gullette

Overview

The Summer 1972 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by George Kimball. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles.

Acclaimed journalist and sportswriter George Kimball ("Four Kings", "Manly Art") guest edits Ploughshares' second issue, showcasing a literary magazine still finding its voice and unfettered by structure. Featuring fiction and poetry interweaved with art and subversive "anti-dramas," Kimball's issue shows the foundation of innovation and challenging thinking that would come to define Ploughshares The issue features work from Ploughshares guest editors DeWitt Henry, Paul Hannigan, Fanny Howe, and Maura Stanton.

POETRY
Desmond O'Grady
Jeff Silva
Thomas Redshaw
Hugh Seidman
Phyllis Janowitz
David Ignatow
Tom Weatherly
Jeoffrey Bartman
Paul Hannigan
David Cohen
Richard Burns
Emily Barkin
Thomas Lux
Joyce Peseroff
Anthony Jarzombek
Larry Eigner
Mark Halliday
Hank Kune
George Anthony
William Corbett
James Humphrey
Jack Thibeau
Maura Stanton
David Berman
Norman Shapiro
Bruce Bennett
David Ball

ANTI-DRAMA

James Tate
Edward Dorn

FICTION

John Bart Gerald
Richard Grossinger
Fanny Howe
Geoffrey Clark
Henry H. Roth

OTHER PROSE

David Gullette
William Corbett
DeWitt Henry

ART

Calvin Burnett
David Omar White

Product Details

BN ID:	2940148396437
Publisher:	Ploughshares
Publication date:	06/15/1972
Series:	Ploughshares , #12
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	102
File size:	10 MB

About the Author

George E. Kimball III (December 20, 1943 - July 6, 2011) was born in Grass Valley, California. He was an American author and journalist who spent 25 years as a sports columnist for the Boston Herald before 'retiring' in 2005. Considered one of the foremost boxing writers of his era, he authored Four Kings: Leonard, Hagler, Hearns, Duran, and the Last Great Era of Boxing (2008) and Manly Art: They can run -- but they can't hide (2011). In collaboration with John Schulian, he edited two anthologies, At The Fights: American Writers on Boxing (2011) and The Fighter Still Remains: A Celebration of Boxing in Poetry and Song from Ali to Zevon (2010). Starting in 1997 he wrote the weekly America at Large column for The Irish Times in Dublin, Ireland, and contributed to a number of boxing websites. He lived in New York City.