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