Ploughshares Spring 1974 Guest-Edited by Fanny Howe

by Fanny Howe (Editor)

Overview

The Spring 1974 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Fanny Howe. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles.

This issue is headlined by fiction, nonfiction, and poetry from future Ploughshares guest editors Madeline DeFrees (Blue Dusk), Paul Hannigan (The Carnation), Maxine Kumin (Where I Live), David Gullette (Dreaming in Nicaragua), and Russell Banks (The Darling), along with works from Richard Cecil, Bobbie Louise Hawkins, Arthur Vogelsang, and other prolific contributors. Placing artwork of musicians at the forefront of the issue, Howe evidently looks for the musical and lyrical in her selections, and finds it in places one would not expect.

FICTION
"Bathroom/Animal/Castration Story," by Bobbie Louise Hawkins
"I Owe You One," by Bobbie Louise Hawkins
"In the Colony," by Bobbie Louise Hawkins
"With Che at the Plaza," by Russell Banks
"Slot People," by Paul Hannigan
"Felicia," by Henry H. Roth
"Juggernaut," by Jonathan David Jackson

NONFICTION
"Estivating (Journal)" by Maxine Kumin

POETRY
Madeline DeFrees
Richard Cecil
Arthur Vogelsang
Kathleen Spivack
Marge Piercy
Calvin Forbes
Robert Kaven
Robert L. Jones
Jack Marshall
William Dickey
David Gullette
Douglas Blazek
Mahmoud Darwish
Edward Harkness
Eiléan Ní Cuilleanáin
Barry Spacks
Peggy Rizza
Peter Davison
Michele Birch
Susan Howe

ART
David Omar White

Product Details

BN ID:	2940148396857
Publisher:	Ploughshares
Publication date:	04/15/1974
Series:	Ploughshares , #21
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	121
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Fanny Howe is the author of more than 20 books of poetry and prose. Her recent collections of poetry include On the Ground (2004), Gone (2003), Selected Poems (2000), Forged (1999), Q (1998), One Crossed Out (1997), O’Clock (1995), and The End (1992). Critic Jordan Davis lauds the manner in which revelatory thought is presented in Gone: “Howe enacts what the South American poet Jorge Guinheime called hasosismo, or the art of the fallen limb, in which startling insights emerge and are subsequently concealed.” Critic Kimberley Lamm, discussing the poem “Doubt,” writes, “Fanny Howe’s work is unique in contemporary poetry for its exploration of religious faith, ethics, politics, and suffering.”

Her Selected Poems won the 2001 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. She has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Poetry Foundation, the California Council for the Arts, and the Village Voice, as well as fellowships from the Bunting Institute and the MacDowell Colony. In 2001 and 2005, Howe was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize. In 2008 she won an Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. She is also the author of several novels and prose collections, most recently The Lives of a Spirit / Glasstown: Where Something Got Broken (2005) and Nod (1998). She has written short stories, books for young adults, and the collection of literary essays The Wedding Dress: Meditations on Word and Life (2003).

Howe grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and taught for almost 20 years in Boston, at MIT, Tufts University, and elsewhere, before taking a job at the University of California at San Diego. She lives in Massachusetts. In 2012 she was the inaugural visiting writer in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Massachusetts-Boston.