Ploughshares Summer 1979 Guest-Edited by Lloyd Schwartz

by Lloyd Schwartz (Editor), Margo Lockwood, Joyce Peseroff, E.T.A. Hoffman, Alice Mattison

Overview

The Summer 1979 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Lloyd Schwartz. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles.

Table of Contents

FICTION
Joe Brainard
"Nothing to Write Home About," by Joe Brainard
"Communication from an Educated Young Man," by E.T.A. Hoffman and Michael Steinberg

NONFICTION
"Robert Trail Spence Lowell," by Peter Taylor

POETRY
Mark Halliday
Alice Mattison
John Gunnison-Wiseman
Jacquelyn Crews
Margo Lockwood
Richard Howard
Anne Winters
James McMichael
Robert Louthan
Jane Kenyon
James Merrill
Frank Bidart
Robert Lowell
Peter Taylor
Alan Williamson
Anne Halley
Gail Mazur
Elizabeth Socolow
Lloyd Schwartz
Joyce Peseroff
Michael Goodson
Mary Doyle Curran
Steve Albert
Robert Polito
David Keller
Jessica Shoher
John Hildebidle
Allen Grossman
John Pijewski
Ricardo da Silveira Lobo Sternberg
Robert Pinsky
David Ferry

Product Details

BN ID:	2940148619109
Publisher:	Ploughshares / Emerson College
Publication date:	07/01/1979
Series:	Ploughshares , #52
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	178
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Lloyd Schwartz is Frederick S. Troy Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Boston, Classical Music Editor of The Boston Phoenix, and a regular commentator for NPR's Fresh Air. He is the author of the poetry collections These People (Wesleyan), Goodnight, Gracie, and Cairo Traffic (U of Chicago), and the chapbook Lloyd Schwartz: The Greatest Hits 1973-2000 (Puddinghouses). He is the editor of Elizabeth Bishop and Her Art (U of Michigan), Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters (Library of America), and Elizabeth Bishop: Prose (FSG, 2011). Three-time winner of the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for writing about music, he has also won grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Society of America (for poetry), the United States Information Agency (for his work on Elizabeth Bishop), and the Amphion Foundation (for his writing on contemporary music). His poems, articles, and reviews have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, The New Republic, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, The Pushcart Prize, and The Best American Poetry. In 1994, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. Schwartz has also been an actor in live theater (working with such actors as Tommy Lee Jones, James Woods, and Stockard Channing) and on The Spider's Web, a national radio program for children.