Ploughshares Fall 1991 Guest-Edited by DeWitt Henry and Joyce Peseroff

by Dewitt Henry (Editor), Joyce Peseroff (Editor), Andre Dubus, Ha Jin, Rita Dove

Overview

The Fall 1991 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by DeWitt Henry and Joyce Peseroff. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles.

This 20th anniversary issue, guest-edited by Ploughshares founder DeWitt Henry and longtime poetry editor Joyce Peseroff, celebrates the writers and editors who were a part of the magazine's first two decades. Henry and Peseroff "set out to convene the extended community of Ploughshares editors by soliciting new poetry, fiction, and commentary from them."

In addition to work from this community, the issue also features unsolicited writing from talented young authors. This classic back issue features a number of prominent writers, including Jennifer Egan, Andre Dubus, Joy Williams, Donald Hall, Mary Karr, Tess Gallagher, and Rita Dove, among others.

Full Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION
DeWitt Henry and Joyce Peseroff

FICTION

"Leaving Letitia Street," by Jacqueline Simon
"Puerto Vallarta," by Jennifer Egan
"Beautiful Vases," by Joe David Bellamy
"Breva," by Fred Viebahn
"Bedtime Story," by Pamela Painter
"White Eggplant," by Elizabeth Searle
"A Wronged Husband," by David Gates
"Boston," by Joy Harjo
"The Lover," by Andre Dubus
"Neversink," by Eileen Pollack
"Craving," by Joy Williams
"Days of Heaven," by Rick Bass

NONFICTION

"Lion: A Memoir of Mark Van Doren," by Dan Wakefield
"In Praise of Rhyme," by Richard Tillinghast

POETRY by

Alice Fulton
Robin Becker
Russell Edson
Patricia Traxler
Robert Pinsky
Tom Sleigh
Leslie Adrienne Miller
Suzanne Owens
Maureen Seaton
Sam Cornish
Michael Milburn
Ellen Bryant Voigt
Ha Jin
Jane Kenyon
Franz Wright
David Wojahn
Allen Grossman
Donald Hall
Charles Simic
Lloyd Schwartz
Steven Cramer
Mary Karr
Ruth Moritz
David Gullette
Gerald Costanzo
Tess Gallagher
Bina Agarwal
David Rivard
Richard Tillinghast
David Ferry
Maxine Kumin
Lucie Brock-Broido
Marilyn Hacker
Jennifer Rose
Robert Polito
Jane Shore
Mark Rudman
Gail Mazur
Mark Halliday
Lorrie Goldensohn
Maura Stanton
Sandra Yannone
Thomas Lux
Alice Mattison
Robert Bly
Madeline DeFrees
Eleanor Ross Taylor
Lynda Hull
Rafael Campo
Andrew Feld
Carolyne Wright
Stuart Dischell
Fanny Howe
Albert Goldbarth
Piotr Sommer
Cyrus Cassells
Andrea Cohen
Carol Frost
Alan Williamson
Margo Lockwood
Celia Gilbert
Diann Blakely Shoaf
M. L. Rosenthal
Nancy White
Rita Dove

Product Details

BN ID:	2940014947282
Publisher:	Ploughshares / Emerson College
Publication date:	08/15/1991
Series:	Ploughshares , #1723
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	288
File size:	531 KB

About the Author

Born in Wayne, Pennsylvania, DeWitt Henry graduated from Amherst College in 1963 and completed his M.A. and PhD from Harvard University by 1971. In the same year, Henry co-founded the literary magazine Ploughshares, and would serve as director and editor until 1995. His books include a memoir, Sweet Dreams: A Family History (Hidden River Press, 2011); a novel, The Marriage of Anna Maye Potts (University of Tennessee Press, 2001); and a collection of essays titled Safe Suicide (Red Hen Press, 2008). He has also edited five anthologies to date, including Sorrow's Company: Writers on Loss and Grief (Beacon Press, 2001) and Fathering Daughters: Reflections by Men (Beacon Press, 1999). He is currently a professor in Emerson College's Writing, Literature, and Publishing program.