Ploughshares Winter 2006-07 Guest-Edited by Rosanna Warren

by Rosanna Warren (Editor)

Overview

The Winter 2005-06 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Rosanna Warren. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles.

This issue of Ploughshares features selections of poetry and prose by award-winning poet Rosanna Warren (Ghost in a Red Hat, Stained Glass). In her introduction, Warren writes, "The pieces I looked for dislocate ordinary language and ordinary vision, and relocate them in parables of sudden insight. The poems suggest stories while casting their song-spells; the stories tilt sentences and paragraphs into rhythmical sequences that formalize the words with which we think we are familiar from everyday speech."

This issue features new work from former Ploughshares guest editors Jane Hirschfield and Tony Hoagland and acclaimed authors and poets John Casey, W. S. Di Piero, Collette Inez, Tomaž Šalamun, Kate Walbert, and Charles Wright.

Full Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION
Rosanna Warren

FICTION

"The Night Mechanic," by J. Boyer
"Rapunzel," by John Casey
"Safekeeping," by Janis Hallowell
"The Dimensions of Silence," by Askold Melnyczuk
"Do Something," by Kate Walbert
"Cry Baby," by David Weiss


POETRY
Anne Atik
Amy Beeder
John Bensko
Frank Bidart
Michael Borich
Peg Boyers
John Casteen
Dan Chiasson
Henri Cole
Peter Cooley
Steven Cramer
Stephen Cushman
W. S. Di Piero
Bryan D. Dietrich
Maggie Dietz
Landis Everson
Richard Fein
Brendan Galvin
Megan Gannon
Linda Gregerson
Jeff Hardin
Jeffrey Harrison
Todd Hearon
Scott Hightower
Brenda Hillman
Jane Hirshfield
Tony Hoagland
Michael Hoffman
John Hollander
Fanny Hower
Colette Inez
Marcia Karp
Maurice Kilwein Guevara
Jennifer L. Knox
Laurie Lamon
Rika Lesser
Jeffrey Levine
Gail Mazur
W. S. Merwin
Idra Novey
Ed Ochester
Linda Pastan
Ricardo Pau-Llosa
Ed Pavlic
John Peck
Joyce Peseroff
Robert Pinsky
Lia Purpura
Maurice Riordan
J. Allyn Rosser
Mark Rudman
Tomaž Šalamun
Sherod Santos
Amy Scattergood
Lloyd Schwartz
Don Share
Elizabeth Spires
Mark Strand
Jules Supervielle
Deborah Tall
Pimone Triplett
Charles Wright
Franz Wright
Adan Zagajewski

EDITOR PROFILE
by Dan Chiasson

POSTSCRIPT
Zacharis Award Winner Thomas Sayers Ellis

Product Details

BN ID:	2940148399674
Publisher:	Ploughshares / Emerson College
Publication date:	12/01/2006
Series:	Ploughshares , #324
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	211
File size:	899 KB

About the Author

Rosanna Warren was born in Fairfield, Connecticut, in 1953, the daughter of celebrated writers Robert Penn Warren and Eleanor Clark. A painter and a translator, in addition to being a poet, Warren has published four books of poems ( Snow Day, Each Leaf Shines Separate, Stained Glass, which won the Lamont Poetry Prize, and Departure), and was a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets (her term ended in 2005). She has also published a translation of Euripides's Suppliant Women (with Stephen Scully) and edited several books, including The Art of Translation: Voices from the Field (Northeastern, 1989). Her awards include the Pushcart Prize, the Award of Merit in Poetry and the Witter Bynner Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the May Sarton Prize, the Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets, the Ingram Merrill Foundation Award, the Ingram Merrill Grant for Poetry, a Lila Wallace Readers Digest Award, the Nation/"Discovery" Award, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies. She teaches Comparative Literature at Boston University.