The Spring 1975 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by David Gullette. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles.
This classic poetry issue, with select fiction and nonfiction, is guest-edited by eminent poet and scholar David Gullette. Famous for his documentation of revolutionary Nicaraguan poetry, Gullette brings a similar international vein to his first Ploughshares issue by translating a piece by Nobel prize-winning author Octavio Paz, while also selecting several poems with a multicultural flavor ("Exile in Japan," "Foreigner," "The Chilean Singer"). Also featuring work from future Ploughshares guest editors Maura Stanton and Raymond Carver, as well as Gullette's own work, this issue continued Ploughshares' rapid evolution into prominence.
FICTION
"The Robber Bridegroom," by Maura Stanton
"The Vineland Lullaby," by William Kittredge
NONFICTION
Excerpts from El Mono Gramático by Octavio Paz & David Gullette
A Conversation with George Starbuck (Interviewed by Charles Simic)
A Conversation with Norman Klein (Interviewed by Mark Strand)
"Ploughshares 2/3: Apologia and Reflections," by David Gullette
POETRY
Kenneth Rexroth
Joan Norris
Barry Spacks
Kenneth Rosen
Richard Wilbur
J. Randolph Stewart
Susan Feldman
Abbot Cutler
Sheila McCormick
George Colt
Margo Lockwood
Lloyd Schwartz
Elizabeth McKim
Rudy Kikel
William Harmon
Robert Siegel
Jonathan Aaron
Lawrence Raab
Ira Sadoff
David Gullette
Thomas Johnson
Eamon Grennan
Robert Pinsky
Norman Klein
Raymond Carver
John Carr
Alice Mattison
Ray Amorosi
Albert Goldbarth
Anthony Hecht
PHOTOGRAPHY
Linda Mahoney
