Ploughshares Winter 1990-91: The Literature of Ecstasy

An issue of Ploughshares from Winter 1990-91, guest-edited by Gerald Stern. 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 award-winning poet Gerald Stern, explores the "literature of ecstasy." In his Introduction, Stern writes, "Ecstasy not only means to be 'placed outside,' that is, to be 'placed outside the body,' but it means—also—to be disp...