Ploughshares Spring 1992: West Real

by Alberto Ríos

Overview

The Spring 1992 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Alberto Rios. 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

INTRODUCTION
Alberto Rios

EDITOR PROFILE
Don Lee

FICTION
"Blazo," by Ron Carlson
"Blood of the Lamb," by Nancy Roberts
"Monday Her Car Wouldn't Start," by Barbara Selfridge
"Eighty Acres," by Wayne Johnson
"Ground Rules," by Dianne Nelson
"Forrest in the Trees," by Dennis Johnson
"Memories End," by Wayne Ude
"The House of Cleopatra," by Maura Stanton
"Hairy Men," by Susan Moon
"Earnest Money," by Michael Dorris

NONFICTION
"Poet Richard Hugo: The Open Field Beyond," by Larry Levinger
"Trickery," by William Kittredge
"The Lure of the West," by Debra Spark

POETRY
Richard Garcia
George Uba
Kathryn VanSpanckeren
Hans Ostrom
Chana Bloch
Cathy Song
Yong U. Kim
Barbara Allen
David Lee
Gary Soto
Brian Young
Dinah Berland
Dana Levin
Isabel Nathaniel
Adele NeJame
Molly Bendall
Carolyne Wright
Angela Ball
Cathy Compton
Dionisio D. Martinez
Mark Rudman
Peggy Shumaker
Ray Gonzalez
David St. John
Maxine Kumin
Frank Stewart
Jeannine Savard
Janet Kenning
Madeline DeFrees
John Frederick Garmon

Product Details

BN ID:	2940148711841
Publisher:	Ploughshares / Emerson College
Publication date:	04/01/1992
Series:	Ploughshares , #181
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Alberto Ríos is the author of eight books and chapbooks of poetry, three collections of short stories, and a memoir. His latest book of poems is The Smallest Muscle in the Human Body (2002). Ríos is the recipient of the Arizona Governor's Arts Award, fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, the Walt Whitman Award, the Western States Book Award for Fiction, five Pushcart Prizes in both poetry and fiction, and inclusion in The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, as well as over 150 other national and international literary anthologies. Ríos is presently Regents' Professor of English at Arizona State University, where he joined the faculty in the Spring of 1982.