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From:Ploughshares (Vol. 46, Issue 4)DeWitt Henry recommends a hundred little pieces on the end of the world by John Rember (U. of New Mexico Press, 2020). "Rember's meditations bn teaching, writing, and friendship in an increasingly fragile world' are,...
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From:Ploughshares (Vol. 46, Issue 4)Over the past decade, my taste in literature--or at least my engagement with it--has shifted dramatically. I spend most of my "reading time" reciting charming and insufferable tales to my children. Curious George, for...
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From:Ploughshares (Vol. 46, Issue 4)The night before my husband and I agreed to get married, we fought. It was a stupid and terrible argument. I'd planned a whole proposal for the next day: rented a rowboat, bought a bottle of champagne, measured his...
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From:Ploughshares (Vol. 46, Issue 4)Charles Baxter, The Sun Collective (Pantheon Books, 2020). Peter Ho Davies, A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, January 2021). Rosanna Warren, So Forth (W.W. Norton, 2020). Max Jacob:...
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From:Ploughshares (Vol. 46, Issue 4)Ploughshares is pleased to present Jill Osier with the thirtieth annual John C. Zacharis First Book Award for her poetry collection, The Solace Is Not the Lullaby (Yale University Press, 2020). The $1,500 award, which...
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From:Ploughshares (Vol. 46, Issue 4)My mom wrote me a poem on October 3, 1997. It's an eighteen-line, five-stanza poem with uneven, mostly unsuccessful end and internal rhymes. The title is "Nobody Knows," which signals an epistemic failure: nobody knows...
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From:Ploughshares (Vol. 46, Issue 4)In the Boston of inherited wealth, the five fetching Rotch daughters were raised in a Commonwealth Avenue mansion in the same Back Bay neighborhood as the Crosby and Bigelow families. The eldest daughter, Josephine, was...