Ploughshares Fall 1994 Guest-Edited by Rosellen Brown

by Rosellen Brown (Editor), Charles Baxter, Suzanne Berne, Rafael Campo, Frederick Busch

Overview

The Fall 1994 issue of Ploughshares, guest edited by Rosellen Brown. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest edited serially by prominent writers who explore different and personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles.

This is the first issue of Ploughshares dedicated solely to the personal essay, and subtitled "Intimate Exile." Acclaimed novelist, essayist, and poet Rosellen Brown writes in her introduction, "There's been great pleasure for me in assembling an issue of Ploughshares--the first devoted entirely to nonfiction--that includes considerations of intimate personal history, science, travel, the acquisition of language, religion, politics, food, pop culture, birth and dying, war, sex, friendship, and a little professional attention to literary matters as well. The manner in which these 'subjects' come under scrutiny ranges from the traditional 'well-made' construction to a few looser, associative flights that laugh in the earnest face of the (extended) five-paragraph theme." Featuring work from Charles Baxter, Frederick Busch, Rafael Campo, Michelle Cliff, Stephen Dunn, Kathleen Norris, Josip Novakovich, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Debra Spark.

INTRODUCTION
Rosellen Brown

NONFICTION
"Relics of Summer" by Frances Mayes
"The Mistake Game" by Rodger Kamenetz
"Why My Uncle Was Late for Breakfast" by Edith Milton
"Last Things" by Debra Spark
"My Good War" by Joseph Featherstone
"Dysfunctional Narratives, or 'Mistakes Were Made'" by Charles Baxter
"The Encroaching Forest: Southeast Asian Memories" by Faith Adiele
"Meeting Mick Jagger" by Susan Jane Gilman
"Degenerates" by Kathleen Norris
"A Spare Umbrella" by Valerie Miner
"My Week Aboard a UFO!!!" by Albert Goldbarth
"This Is No Language" by Josip Novakovich
"Holocaust Girls/Lemon" by S.L. Wisenberg
"Belongings" by Susan Lester
"Brother" by Jane Creighton
"Poetry and Manners" by Stephen Dunn
"The World and All Its Teeth" by Naomi Shihab Nye
"Dora Rewriting Freud: Desiring to Heal" by Rafael Campo
"History as Fiction, Fiction as History" by Michelle Cliff
"Looking for a Lost House" by Suzanne Berne
"Out of Control" by Frank DeSanto
"Food: A Memoir" by Lisa Cohen
"Bad" by Frederick Busch

POSTSCRIPT
Cohen Award winners: Cleopatra Mathis and Fred G. Leebron

Product Details

BN ID:	2940016565125
Publisher:	Ploughshares / Emerson College
Publication date:	08/15/1994
Series:	Ploughshares , #2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	254
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Rosellen Brown has published widely in magazines and her stories have appeared frequently in O. Henry Prize Stories, Best American Short Stories and Pushcart Prizes. One is included in the best-seller Best Short Stories of the Century, edited by John Updike.

She has been the recipient of an award in literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the Bunting Institute, the Howard Foundation, and twice from the National Endowment for the Arts, and was selected one of Ms. Magazine’s 12 “Women of the Year” in 1984. Some Deaths in the Delta was a National Council on the Arts prize selection and Civil Wars won the Janet Kafka Prize for the best novel by an American woman in 1984.