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My Silence and Sapling Time, and: Sunflower
Authors: Kroesche Michael
Published: March 2016

This poem is taken from an ongoing manuscript that began in Aokigahara, Japan’s “suicide forest” located near the base of Mt. Fuji. In the manuscript, two parallel sequences intertwine where in one the suicides, the new and old ghosts, the park rangers, and the forest itself are all given voice. In the other, the poems take on an autobiographical exploration thrown against the ecological backdrops of forest and desert, dovetailing thematically as they both simultaneously attempt to map this new geography that the pieces inhabit. This poem is taken from an ongoing manuscript that began in Aokigahara, Japan’s “suicide forest” located near the base of Mt. Fuji. In the manuscript, two parallel sequences intertwine where in one the suicides, the new and old ghosts, the park rangers, and the forest itself are all given voice. In the other, the poems take on an autobiographical exploration thrown against the ecological backdrops of forest and desert, dovetailing thematically as they both simultaneously attempt to map this new geography that the pieces inhabit.
Intrinsic
Authors: McLellan Kevin
Published: March 2016

what will happen when “you consider the torso’s pulse-points as you walk into oncoming traffic” and what will happen when you realize “you must stop focusing on pairs / torsos / pairs of torsos”?
Still Life
Authors: Landry Benjamin
Published: March 2016

“Still Life” is a poem by Benjamin Landry about mortality, agency, impulsiveness and frustration.
To the New Year
Authors: Rackin Ethel
Published: March 2016

“To the New Year” by Ethel Rackin considers the surprising moments of hope or resistance that can be found during periods of longing and loss.
Deer Luck
Authors: Geminder Emily
Published: March 2016

If a deer leaps from the woods, pauses mid-air, pinned still by headlights. If you love the thing that wants to kill you, your luck will burn like a flare: brief but shining.
Repair
Authors: Rajan Supritha
Published: March 2016

The poem describes a bark as it drifts in water and turns into a paper boat that is later found by a boy who then remakes it into other things.
Bal des Ardents
Authors: Gewirtz Julian
Published: March 2016

The poem centers on Charles VI of France, the mad king whose favored courtiers perished when their costumes caught on fire at a masquerade that came to be known as “the Ball of the Burning Men,” or Bal des Ardents.
Forward Falling Daytime
Authors: Mountain Alicia
Published: March 2016

Three friends drive through Montana in an old Volvo, consider aging on both the human and geological scale, and what togetherness might look like.
Some of What Was Left After Therapy
Authors: Ridl Jack
Published: March 2016

After thirteen shock treatments, seven psychiatric hospitalizations, umpteen therapists, and a truck load of drugs, I've been well now for some thirty years. A larger part of recovery goes to a combination of the advances made in mental health research and most certainly to my wife, Julie. The poem attempts to get at specifics "examples" of the kinds of things that were left after all that.
On Peckham Rye Near Dulwich Hill, and: Los’s Lark
Authors: Babbitt Geoffrey
Published: March 2016

"On Peckham Rye near Dulwich Hill": "The walker," here, is William Blake, and the poem outlines one of the poet's first visions (at about ten years of age), as described by Alexander Gilchrist in his marvelous biography. Los's Lark: In William Blake's *Milton*, Los is the northern Zoa who represents the poetic imagination, and the lark, whose appearance at the end of the epic marks Los's transformation, is his messenger.
Headwaters
Authors: Rojas Andres
Published: March 2016

This poem explores the cyclical process of life and questions the mythology behind humanity’s central position in our narrative of that cycle. The poem uses a small spring high in the Blue Ridge Mountains, which is one of the sources of the Chattahoochee River, as a metaphor for a circular, rather than linear, understanding of nature and ecology, time, and being.
My Sister’s Hand in Mine
Authors: Conoley Gillian
Published: March 2016

I wrote this poem after spending for days with my sister in hospice as my mother was dying. The title is from Jane Bowles' collection of short stories.
Paradox in Partu : Verifying Virginity in the Protevangelium of James
Authors: Lillis Julia Kelto
Published: March 2016

Scholars often assume that Salome’s inspection of Mary in Protevangelium of James 19–20 involves an intact hymen that proves Mary’s sexual virginity. I argue that this is an anachronistic reading; notions about hymens and genital examinations to verify virginity were probably not prevalent in the Protevangelium ’s cultural context. Instead, Salome’s examination should be understood to convey that Mary is a virgin not only sexually, but also in a “puerperal” sense, spared from the effects of ordinary childbearing. The text thus anticipates the later concept of Mary’s virginity in partu in some ways but not others, while its vision of virginal birth eventually merges with other definitions of virginity in late ancient Christian discourse.
The Female Figures and Fate in the Interpretation of Knowledge , NHC XI,1
Authors: Linjamaa Paul
Published: March 2016

This article investigates the many female figures mentioned in the Interpretation of Knowledge , the first text of Nag Hammadi Codex XI. The different female figures are identified and the connection between them is clarified. It is argued that the different female characters are part of a version of the Valentinian myth of the falling of the youngest Aeon, which resulted in the wandering astray of the Soul and the creation of cosmos. Furthermore, this article investigates the previously unexplored role of Fate in the text. It is argued that the mention of Fate fits very well into the overall narrative of the text and is closely intertwined with the character called “the Female.”
A Manichaean Hymn at Oxyrhynchus: A Reevaluation of P.Oxy. 2074
Authors: Smith Geoffrey S.
Published: March 2016

This article reevaluates the religious context of P.Oxy. 2074, a theological hymn from the Oxyrhynchus collection at Oxford University. Although P.Oxy. 2074 is generally thought to contain a portion of Melito of Sardis’s otherwise lost treatise On Truth , the text’s language, theology, and genre strongly indicate that it does not belong to a hypothetical lost treatise of Melito, but to the corpus of Manichaean writings. P.Oxy. 2074 most likely preserves the fragmentary remains of a fifth-century Manichaean hymn. As a Greek Manichean hymn, we should welcome P.Oxy. 2074 as a new addition to the lengthy paper trail left by Manichaeans living in Egypt, a text that speaks to both the vitality of the Manichaean literary tradition and the diversity of the religious landscape of late antique Oxyrhynchus.
Entangled Utopias: The Nazi Mobilization of Ethnic German Youths in the Batschka, 1930s–1944
Authors: Mezger Caroline
Published: March 2016

This article presents novel research on Nazi youth programs amongst the Batschka’s “Donauschwaben.” Illustrating how “reichsdeutsche” and “auslandsdeutsche” youths came into contact through Nazi youth programs during the 1930s and early 1940s, it traces how youth exchanges shaped diverse but mutually constitutive utopian imaginations of “Germanness” and “German” space. Children from the Reich promulgated visions of a “utopian” but “corrupted” Batschka, while ethnic German youths gained visions of a Germany which they could, in adhering to National Socialism, seemingly help build. As this article argues, utopias were not merely created “from above” and then multiplied and altered “from below”; rather, they also helped spur activity and violence in line with Nazism’s geopolitical and ideological aims.
“No Candy Store, No Pizza Shops, No Maxi-Skirts, No Makeup”: Socializing Orthodox Jewish Girls Through Schooling
Authors: Klein Leslie Ginsparg
Published: March 2016

For American Orthodox Jewish girls, Bais Yaakov schools became the primary location of socialization. School administrators clearly articulated curricular learning as secondary to the primary goal of socializing girls to embrace Orthodox Jewish roles and observances. In the 1960s–1980s, disturbed by new trends in society, school leaders imposed new rules and policies, redefining proper Orthodox girlhood. They emphasized modest dress, and restricted coed fraternization and popular culture. Girls engaged in this socialization process and expressed agency in different ways. This resulted in the creation of a hybrid American Orthodox youth culture. While at times they resisted, ultimately girls accepted the values and observances school leaders advanced.
Metaphors Unto Themselves: Mental Illness Poetics in Contemporary Chinese Poetry
Authors: Linder Birgit Bunzel
Published: March 2016

Recently, proponents of the critical medical humanities have recommended a more discerning view of the ways in which genres and forms “speak” to and for illness, looking specifically at cultural and historical dimensions and cultural specificities of idioms of distress rather than at transhistorical and transcultural approaches. These two claims for a genre-specific critique and, in this case, a cross-cultural approach, ground my reading of the work of Chinese poets Guo Lusheng (Indexfinger; b. 1948) and Wen Jie (b. 1963), diagnosed with schizophrenia and clinical depression, respectively. The study uncovers a lyrical voice that takes shape in the poets’ illness-related content, but also in the formal aspects of the Chinese poetic tradition. I argue that the delight of writing poetry lies less in the attempt to express a subjective experience than in finding the devices and forms that integrate an individual experience into a collective form of “illness poetics.”
William Thomas’s Notebook: A Window on Seventeenth-Century Religion and Politics
Authors: Waite Greg
Published: March 2016

William Thomas entered Brasenose College, Oxford, as an undergraduate in 1609 and, while there, possessed at least one small notebook in which he recorded sermons from hearing. After ordination in 1617, and as a committed Puritan, Thomas was twice ejected from his living at Ubley in Somerset, first in 1634, then in 1662 after the Restoration. In the period of the Civil War, he used the notebook to record excerpts from printed religious and political tracts. Now in private hands in New Zealand, this notebook adds to our understanding of the culture of sermon-notation, and to the life of Thomas himself, known otherwise through his published works and Somerset ecclesiastical records.
The Exeter Drawings of John Carter: A Rare Book in a Private Collection in New Zealand
Authors: Marshall Simone Celine
Published: March 2016

The English architect John Carter (1748–1817) was a prodigious writer about medieval architecture, a fanaticism resulting in more than 380 articles and twelve books. Vociferous in his plea against James Wyatt’s architectural ‘improvements’, Carter was, in Rosemary Sweet’s words, ‘the most vocal and dogmatic exponent of the view that the Gothic style was indigenous to England and owed nothing to foreign influence’. This article examines a copy of Carter’s Exeter Cathedral book from a private collection in New Zealand, to consider Carter’s wider influence on the Gothic revival.
Sir George Grey’s Mistake in Oliver Cromwell: Protectorate Politics in a Colonial Collection
Authors: Kemp Geoff
Published: March 2016

Sir George Grey’s gift to Auckland Public Library in 1887 included a collection of original documents from the English Protectorate of 1653–59. Central to the collection is a manuscript treaty signed by English and Dutch commissioners. The Cromwell papers have received scant attention since Grey’s death but the ‘secret treaty’, as it was called, rewards investigation for the light it sheds both on the Cromwellian ‘imperial moment’ identified by recent scholarship and on the ‘cult of Cromwell’ in the most distant part of the nineteenth-century British Empire. Unlocking its secret, moreover, involves showing that the manuscript has been misdated and mistakenly described for at least 140 years.
The Mirror
Authors: Polonskaya Anzhelina
Published: March 2016

The Winter 2015-16 issue of Ploughshares. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Two out of each year’s three issues are guest-edited by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles, with the Winter issue staff-edited. The stories, poems, and essays that comprise this staff-edited issue of Ploughshares are diverse and timely. Visit a South African laundromat in Laurie Baker’s short story, “Here I Am, Laughing with Boers”; fly over the American midwest in George Bilgere’s poem, “Way Above Illinois”; and read about life as a border patrol agent in New Mexico in Francisco Cantú’s essay, “Bajadas.” The pieces jump from Manhattan to China to Idaho, but the common thread of humanity is never lost. Read new prose from Meng Jin, Ryan Ruff Smith, and Joan Murray, and poetry from Matthew Lippman, Natalie Shapero, and more. The winners of our Emerging Writer’s Contest appear here, along with the announcement of our Zacharis Award winner. This issue is dedicated to William H. Berman (1936-2015), an advisory board member and Emerson College overseer.
Something About Ecology
Authors: Lippman Matthew
Published: March 2016

The Winter 2015-16 issue of Ploughshares. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Two out of each year’s three issues are guest-edited by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles, with the Winter issue staff-edited. The stories, poems, and essays that comprise this staff-edited issue of Ploughshares are diverse and timely. Visit a South African laundromat in Laurie Baker’s short story, “Here I Am, Laughing with Boers”; fly over the American midwest in George Bilgere’s poem, “Way Above Illinois”; and read about life as a border patrol agent in New Mexico in Francisco Cantú’s essay, “Bajadas.” The pieces jump from Manhattan to China to Idaho, but the common thread of humanity is never lost. Read new prose from Meng Jin, Ryan Ruff Smith, and Joan Murray, and poetry from Matthew Lippman, Natalie Shapero, and more. The winners of our Emerging Writer’s Contest appear here, along with the announcement of our Zacharis Award winner. This issue is dedicated to William H. Berman (1936-2015), an advisory board member and Emerson College overseer.
Genesis
Authors: Harrington Janice N.
Published: March 2016

The Winter 2015-16 issue of Ploughshares. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Two out of each year’s three issues are guest-edited by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles, with the Winter issue staff-edited. The stories, poems, and essays that comprise this staff-edited issue of Ploughshares are diverse and timely. Visit a South African laundromat in Laurie Baker’s short story, “Here I Am, Laughing with Boers”; fly over the American midwest in George Bilgere’s poem, “Way Above Illinois”; and read about life as a border patrol agent in New Mexico in Francisco Cantú’s essay, “Bajadas.” The pieces jump from Manhattan to China to Idaho, but the common thread of humanity is never lost. Read new prose from Meng Jin, Ryan Ruff Smith, and Joan Murray, and poetry from Matthew Lippman, Natalie Shapero, and more. The winners of our Emerging Writer’s Contest appear here, along with the announcement of our Zacharis Award winner. This issue is dedicated to William H. Berman (1936-2015), an advisory board member and Emerson College overseer.
Splendor and Twilight
Authors: Hofmann Richie
Published: March 2016

The Winter 2015-16 issue of Ploughshares. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Two out of each year’s three issues are guest-edited by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles, with the Winter issue staff-edited. The stories, poems, and essays that comprise this staff-edited issue of Ploughshares are diverse and timely. Visit a South African laundromat in Laurie Baker’s short story, “Here I Am, Laughing with Boers”; fly over the American midwest in George Bilgere’s poem, “Way Above Illinois”; and read about life as a border patrol agent in New Mexico in Francisco Cantú’s essay, “Bajadas.” The pieces jump from Manhattan to China to Idaho, but the common thread of humanity is never lost. Read new prose from Meng Jin, Ryan Ruff Smith, and Joan Murray, and poetry from Matthew Lippman, Natalie Shapero, and more. The winners of our Emerging Writer’s Contest appear here, along with the announcement of our Zacharis Award winner. This issue is dedicated to William H. Berman (1936-2015), an advisory board member and Emerson College overseer.
Girlfriends
Authors: Millar Joseph
Published: March 2016

The Winter 2015-16 issue of Ploughshares. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Two out of each year’s three issues are guest-edited by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles, with the Winter issue staff-edited. The stories, poems, and essays that comprise this staff-edited issue of Ploughshares are diverse and timely. Visit a South African laundromat in Laurie Baker’s short story, “Here I Am, Laughing with Boers”; fly over the American midwest in George Bilgere’s poem, “Way Above Illinois”; and read about life as a border patrol agent in New Mexico in Francisco Cantú’s essay, “Bajadas.” The pieces jump from Manhattan to China to Idaho, but the common thread of humanity is never lost. Read new prose from Meng Jin, Ryan Ruff Smith, and Joan Murray, and poetry from Matthew Lippman, Natalie Shapero, and more. The winners of our Emerging Writer’s Contest appear here, along with the announcement of our Zacharis Award winner. This issue is dedicated to William H. Berman (1936-2015), an advisory board member and Emerson College overseer.
Anagram, and: At a Pool Hall
Authors: Lam Kien
Published: March 2016

The Winter 2015-16 issue of Ploughshares. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Two out of each year’s three issues are guest-edited by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles, with the Winter issue staff-edited. The stories, poems, and essays that comprise this staff-edited issue of Ploughshares are diverse and timely. Visit a South African laundromat in Laurie Baker’s short story, “Here I Am, Laughing with Boers”; fly over the American midwest in George Bilgere’s poem, “Way Above Illinois”; and read about life as a border patrol agent in New Mexico in Francisco Cantú’s essay, “Bajadas.” The pieces jump from Manhattan to China to Idaho, but the common thread of humanity is never lost. Read new prose from Meng Jin, Ryan Ruff Smith, and Joan Murray, and poetry from Matthew Lippman, Natalie Shapero, and more. The winners of our Emerging Writer’s Contest appear here, along with the announcement of our Zacharis Award winner. This issue is dedicated to William H. Berman (1936-2015), an advisory board member and Emerson College overseer.
That Golden Hour
Authors: Turpin Mark
Published: March 2016

The Winter 2015-16 issue of Ploughshares. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Two out of each year’s three issues are guest-edited by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles, with the Winter issue staff-edited. The stories, poems, and essays that comprise this staff-edited issue of Ploughshares are diverse and timely. Visit a South African laundromat in Laurie Baker’s short story, “Here I Am, Laughing with Boers”; fly over the American midwest in George Bilgere’s poem, “Way Above Illinois”; and read about life as a border patrol agent in New Mexico in Francisco Cantú’s essay, “Bajadas.” The pieces jump from Manhattan to China to Idaho, but the common thread of humanity is never lost. Read new prose from Meng Jin, Ryan Ruff Smith, and Joan Murray, and poetry from Matthew Lippman, Natalie Shapero, and more. The winners of our Emerging Writer’s Contest appear here, along with the announcement of our Zacharis Award winner. This issue is dedicated to William H. Berman (1936-2015), an advisory board member and Emerson College overseer.
Heidi Klum
Authors: Leatham Kent
Published: March 2016

The Winter 2015-16 issue of Ploughshares. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Two out of each year’s three issues are guest-edited by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles, with the Winter issue staff-edited. The stories, poems, and essays that comprise this staff-edited issue of Ploughshares are diverse and timely. Visit a South African laundromat in Laurie Baker’s short story, “Here I Am, Laughing with Boers”; fly over the American midwest in George Bilgere’s poem, “Way Above Illinois”; and read about life as a border patrol agent in New Mexico in Francisco Cantú’s essay, “Bajadas.” The pieces jump from Manhattan to China to Idaho, but the common thread of humanity is never lost. Read new prose from Meng Jin, Ryan Ruff Smith, and Joan Murray, and poetry from Matthew Lippman, Natalie Shapero, and more. The winners of our Emerging Writer’s Contest appear here, along with the announcement of our Zacharis Award winner. This issue is dedicated to William H. Berman (1936-2015), an advisory board member and Emerson College overseer.
An Ordinary Misfortune
Authors: Yoon Emily Jungmin
Published: March 2016

The Winter 2015-16 issue of Ploughshares. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Two out of each year’s three issues are guest-edited by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles, with the Winter issue staff-edited. The stories, poems, and essays that comprise this staff-edited issue of Ploughshares are diverse and timely. Visit a South African laundromat in Laurie Baker’s short story, “Here I Am, Laughing with Boers”; fly over the American midwest in George Bilgere’s poem, “Way Above Illinois”; and read about life as a border patrol agent in New Mexico in Francisco Cantú’s essay, “Bajadas.” The pieces jump from Manhattan to China to Idaho, but the common thread of humanity is never lost. Read new prose from Meng Jin, Ryan Ruff Smith, and Joan Murray, and poetry from Matthew Lippman, Natalie Shapero, and more. The winners of our Emerging Writer’s Contest appear here, along with the announcement of our Zacharis Award winner. This issue is dedicated to William H. Berman (1936-2015), an advisory board member and Emerson College overseer.
Untitled
Authors: Richardson Cat
Published: March 2016

The Winter 2015-16 issue of Ploughshares. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Two out of each year’s three issues are guest-edited by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles, with the Winter issue staff-edited. The stories, poems, and essays that comprise this staff-edited issue of Ploughshares are diverse and timely. Visit a South African laundromat in Laurie Baker’s short story, “Here I Am, Laughing with Boers”; fly over the American midwest in George Bilgere’s poem, “Way Above Illinois”; and read about life as a border patrol agent in New Mexico in Francisco Cantú’s essay, “Bajadas.” The pieces jump from Manhattan to China to Idaho, but the common thread of humanity is never lost. Read new prose from Meng Jin, Ryan Ruff Smith, and Joan Murray, and poetry from Matthew Lippman, Natalie Shapero, and more. The winners of our Emerging Writer’s Contest appear here, along with the announcement of our Zacharis Award winner. This issue is dedicated to William H. Berman (1936-2015), an advisory board member and Emerson College overseer.
A Full Moon of Capital Assets
Authors: Vincenz Marc
Published: March 2016

The Winter 2015-16 issue of Ploughshares. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Two out of each year’s three issues are guest-edited by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles, with the Winter issue staff-edited. The stories, poems, and essays that comprise this staff-edited issue of Ploughshares are diverse and timely. Visit a South African laundromat in Laurie Baker’s short story, “Here I Am, Laughing with Boers”; fly over the American midwest in George Bilgere’s poem, “Way Above Illinois”; and read about life as a border patrol agent in New Mexico in Francisco Cantú’s essay, “Bajadas.” The pieces jump from Manhattan to China to Idaho, but the common thread of humanity is never lost. Read new prose from Meng Jin, Ryan Ruff Smith, and Joan Murray, and poetry from Matthew Lippman, Natalie Shapero, and more. The winners of our Emerging Writer’s Contest appear here, along with the announcement of our Zacharis Award winner. This issue is dedicated to William H. Berman (1936-2015), an advisory board member and Emerson College overseer.
The Wristwatch
Authors: Smith Austin
Published: March 2016

The Winter 2015-16 issue of Ploughshares. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Two out of each year’s three issues are guest-edited by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles, with the Winter issue staff-edited. The stories, poems, and essays that comprise this staff-edited issue of Ploughshares are diverse and timely. Visit a South African laundromat in Laurie Baker’s short story, “Here I Am, Laughing with Boers”; fly over the American midwest in George Bilgere’s poem, “Way Above Illinois”; and read about life as a border patrol agent in New Mexico in Francisco Cantú’s essay, “Bajadas.” The pieces jump from Manhattan to China to Idaho, but the common thread of humanity is never lost. Read new prose from Meng Jin, Ryan Ruff Smith, and Joan Murray, and poetry from Matthew Lippman, Natalie Shapero, and more. The winners of our Emerging Writer’s Contest appear here, along with the announcement of our Zacharis Award winner. This issue is dedicated to William H. Berman (1936-2015), an advisory board member and Emerson College overseer.
So Long
Authors: Rogers Stephanie
Published: March 2016

The Winter 2015-16 issue of Ploughshares. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Two out of each year’s three issues are guest-edited by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles, with the Winter issue staff-edited. The stories, poems, and essays that comprise this staff-edited issue of Ploughshares are diverse and timely. Visit a South African laundromat in Laurie Baker’s short story, “Here I Am, Laughing with Boers”; fly over the American midwest in George Bilgere’s poem, “Way Above Illinois”; and read about life as a border patrol agent in New Mexico in Francisco Cantú’s essay, “Bajadas.” The pieces jump from Manhattan to China to Idaho, but the common thread of humanity is never lost. Read new prose from Meng Jin, Ryan Ruff Smith, and Joan Murray, and poetry from Matthew Lippman, Natalie Shapero, and more. The winners of our Emerging Writer’s Contest appear here, along with the announcement of our Zacharis Award winner. This issue is dedicated to William H. Berman (1936-2015), an advisory board member and Emerson College overseer.
Mermaid Parade
Authors: Wendel Monica
Published: March 2016

The Winter 2015-16 issue of Ploughshares. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Two out of each year’s three issues are guest-edited by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles, with the Winter issue staff-edited. The stories, poems, and essays that comprise this staff-edited issue of Ploughshares are diverse and timely. Visit a South African laundromat in Laurie Baker’s short story, “Here I Am, Laughing with Boers”; fly over the American midwest in George Bilgere’s poem, “Way Above Illinois”; and read about life as a border patrol agent in New Mexico in Francisco Cantú’s essay, “Bajadas.” The pieces jump from Manhattan to China to Idaho, but the common thread of humanity is never lost. Read new prose from Meng Jin, Ryan Ruff Smith, and Joan Murray, and poetry from Matthew Lippman, Natalie Shapero, and more. The winners of our Emerging Writer’s Contest appear here, along with the announcement of our Zacharis Award winner. This issue is dedicated to William H. Berman (1936-2015), an advisory board member and Emerson College overseer.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the Emergence of American Literary Realism
Authors: Forster Sophia
Published: March 2016

This article discusses Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’s 1870 novel Hedged In in the context of the emergence of American literary realism in opposition to the antebellum “romance,” particularly as that form was the vehicle through which high-cultural authorship was both established and established as male. I argue that reading the novel as a rewriting of the most venerable exemplar of the romance tradition, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter , suggests that the contours of realism’s emergence made it attractive to a woman writer precisely because the genre seemed to exist beyond antebellum models of gendered authorship, providing a venue in which the portrayal of social—even religious—concerns did not preclude a claim to the talent and ambition of an artist.
An Collins and the Seventeenth-Century Mortalism Controversy
Authors: Pope Johnathan H.
Published: March 2016

“The Soul (say they) doth with the Body dy,” writes An Collins in her sole book of poetry, Divine Songs and Meditacions (1653). With that statement, Collins begins her attack on mortalism, the belief that the soul dies or sleeps with the body in the grave rather than ascending to heaven following the death of an individual. Through a discussion of mortalism within the context of her own infirm body, the poet reveals an anxiety regarding the status of the soul prior to Judgment Day that is simultaneously doctrinal and personal.
Mary Wroth’s Ephemeral Epitaph
Authors: Simon Margaret
Published: March 2016

This article argues that Mary Wroth, through her lyric sequence’s first song, defines poetic immortality as necessarily multimodal in the broadest sense, equally reliant on its literary intertexts and its material forms. The essay draws attention to the poem’s engagement with material writing practices, memorial customs, and literary connections, culminating with the self-penned epitaph Wroth’s speaker uses to close the poem. In so doing, this essay positions Wroth’s work, often read as self-consciously disengaged from her literary coterie, in a broad conversation about poetry’s capacity to endure as an object of imitation and affiliation.
Recent Studies in the English Renaissance
Authors: Hammill Graham
Published: March 2016

An assessment of recent scholarly work treating the literature of the English Renaissance and some general observations on the state of the profession. A full bibliography and price list of works received by SEL for consideration follow.
Landscape as Arena and Spatial Narrative in the New River Gorge National River’s Coal Camps: A Case Study of the Elverton, West Virginia 1914 Strike
Authors: Leebrick Rhiannon A. , Maples James N.
Published: March 2016

En este trabajo examinamos el estudio de caso de Elverton, West Virginia, como evidencia de la manera en que los factores externos determinan la conmemoración. Elverton fue un pequeño pueblo minero del carbón y el sitio de una breve pero exitosa sublevación de trabajadores en 1914 durante el auge de la minería en West Virginia. Enmarcamos este estudio de caso en la perspectiva del paisaje como escenario y como narrativa espacial. Encontramos que como escenario, ningún grupo ha iniciado la conmemoración del paisaje, probablemente porque Elverton es de difícil acceso. La evidencia sugiere también que Elverton no se halla incluido en la narrativa espacial del Servicio de Parques Nacionales sobre el New River Gorge debido a recursos limitados. En su lugar, el Servicio de Parques Nacionales utiliza sitios más accesibles que requieren renovaciones menos costosas para representar el término/el fin de la bonanza minera en esta región. Bajo ambas perspectivas, la falta de conmemoración de Elverton también parece atribuirse a sus propietarios anteriores: las empresas mineras del carbón.
‘Tension’ and ‘care’ as cornerstones of criteria for poetic-visual inquiry as arts-based educational research
Authors: Yuan Yanyue , Hickman Richard
Published: March 2016

This article aims to address a number of interrelated issues concerning criteria for arts-based research. We start by responding to current discussions and debates over criteria, with a tacit goal of redefining the nature and goal of emerging visions of doing qualitative-oriented research. After reviewing some emerging frameworks for judging qualitative-oriented research and arts-based studies, we explore the prospect of integrating poetic elements into visual inquiry. This feeds into our suggestion of poetic-visual inquiry as a form of arts-based research, which we elaborate through three existing studies. In relation to this, we raise tension and care as two keys for thinking through researchers’ consciousness when carrying out arts-based research.
Advancing the Forensic Analysis of Dyed Fibers by Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry
Authors: Zhou Chuanzhen , Beck Keith R. , Hinks David , Crawford Anne , Blake Samantha
Published: March 2016

Dyed fibers are commonly obtained as trace evidence at crime scenes. Time-of-flight mass spectrometry (TOF MS) has potential to substantially advance forensic dyed fiber analysis by providing “exact mass” data of dyes and other chemicals present in dyed fibers. Data from two approaches to using TOF MS for accurately identifying the molecular formula of dyes are reported. One involves extraction of dye from 100 üg or less of fiber followed by high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC-TOF MS) analysis. The other is time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometric (TOF SIMS) analysis of the surface and cross sections of dyed fibers without extraction. Both approaches can clearly identify commercially important dyes applied to polyester fibers.
Opting out: Parents creating contested spaces to challenge standardized tests
Authors: Mitra Dana , Mann Bryan , Hlavacik Mark
Published: March 2016

We explore how the opt-out movement has responded to the combination of a stringent federal policy with weak and often variable implementation among the states. Gaps between federal expectations and states’ understandings of just how to make NCLB’s demands a reality have created policy ambiguity. Parents who oppose standardized testing have recognized the resulting tensions and oversights in state education systems as a policy vacuum rife with opportunities for resistance. We examine how parents have exploited policy ambiguity through creating contested spaces—places of agency in stringent policy environments in which grassroots can question policy authority and take action. We conclude by considering whether these contested spaces are sustainable and whether the policy outcomes generated in contested spaces are reasonably equitable.
O Cinema Português, o Transtemporal e o Mito
Authors: Castelo Branco Sara
Published: March 2016

Eduardo Lourenço meditou sobre a relação histórico-mitificada dos portugueses com o seu país, afirmando que estes têm vivido numa espécie de hiper-identidade, incorporando uma obsessão pelo passado, que co-existe com uma espera utópica pelo futuro, tal como representa o mito do sebastianismo.O Cinema Português, o Transtemporal e o Mito parte, sobretudo, da obra de Lourenço para propor uma investigação sobre a forma como os mitos identitários – criados e difundidos pela literatura ao longo dos séculos –, obtiveram representações imagéticas nos séculos XX e XXI, através de um cinema que construiu e desconstruiu estas mitológicas histórico-patrióticas. Portanto, se houve um cinema que, ao serviço do Estado Novo, solidificou estes mitos, posteriormente, estes iriam ser desconstruídos por uma série de películas do pós-25 de Abril, convocando a capacidade da imagem em re-edificar continuamente um património comum mitificado.
Ética e estética: o papel da indexação na recepção de um filme
Authors: Lira Bertrand de Souza
Published: March 2016

A partir da análise do documentário de curta-metragem A queima (Diego Benevides, 2013) discutiremos a relação entre indexação, ética e estética na produção cinematográfica documental contemporânea brasileira baseada nas reflexões apresentadas por Noël Carroll (2005), Fernão Ramos (2001, 2008), Roger Odin (2012, 2005) sobre a delimitação do campo documental.
(R)evoluções e Transições Revisitadas - O Fim do Império Colonial Português em Representações Cinematográficas da Lusofonia (1974-2014)
Authors: Schefer Raquel
Published: March 2016

A Sessão (R)evoluções e Transições Revisitadas - O Fim do Império Colonial Português em Representações Cinematográficas da Lusofonia (1974-2014) decorreu nos dias 17 e 18 de Setembro, em Aachen, durante o XI Congresso da Associação Alemã de Lusitanistas. O presente artigo propõe uma reflexão sobre as comunicações aí apresentadas.
Comparison of Physiological Variables Between the Elliptical Bicycle and Run Training in Experienced Runners
Authors: Klein Ian E. , White Jason B. , Rana Sharon R.
Published: March 2016

Klein, IE, White, JB, and Rana, SR. Comparison of physiological variables between the elliptical bicycle and run training in experienced runners. J Strength Cond Res 30(11): 2998–3006, 2016—A novel outdoor elliptical bicycle (EBIKE) has been designed to elicit running-similar physiological adaptations while reducing the impact forces that commonly lead to injury. Various cross-training methods have been used to reduce injury risk, restore or maintain fitness, and prevent detraining. The purpose of this study was to compare 4 weeks of EBIKE-only training to run-only training on maximal oxygen consumption, ventilatory threshold, respiratory compensation point, running economy, and 5,000 m time trial times. Twelve experienced runners (age, 22.33 ± 3.33 years; running experience, 9.25 ± 4.53 years) completed 4 weeks of randomly assigned EBIKE or run training. Physiological and performance testing procedures were repeated, and subjects then performed a second matched 4-week training period in a crossover design. Ventilatory threshold was significantly greater after EBIKE (p ≤ 0.05; 41.60 ± 6.15 ml·kg−1·min−1) and run training (p ≤ 0.05; 42.33 ± 6.96 ml·kg−1·min−1) compared with the initial time point (40.17 ± 6.47 ml·kg−1·min−1). There were no significant group differences (p > 0.05) for these variables at any time point. In conclusion, EBIKE-only training yielded similar physiological and performance maintenance or improvements compared with run-only training. These results suggest that EBIKE training can be an effective cross-training method to maintain and improve certain physiological and performance variables in experienced runners over a 4-week period.
Imantodes chocoensis Torres-Carvajal, Yánez-Muñoz, Quirola, Smith, and Almendáriz, 2012 (Squamata: Dipsadidae): first records from Colombia
Authors: Jaramillo-Martínez Andrés F. , Valencia-Zuleta Alejandro , Castro-Herrera Fernando
Published: March 2016

The occurrence of Imantodes chocoensis in Colombia is noted for the first time based on two new records from the lowlands of Valle del Cauca, on the Colombian Pacific coast, which extends the species range approximately 313 km NE (airline) from Carchi and Esmeralda, Ecuador.
Vascular flora of the Mata dos Godoy State Park, Londrina, Paraná, Brazil
Authors: Rossetto Elson Felipe Sandoli , Vieira Ana Odete Santos
Published: March 2016

The Mata dos Godoy State Park (MGSP) is a remnant of the Seasonal Semideciduous Forest in northern Paraná, with an area of 690 hectares. The MGSP flora inventory was produced from a survey of herbarium specimens deposited in the FUEL Herbarium. The result was the catalogue of 508 species, among which we screened 40 specimens of ferns and lycophytes, and the remainder was classified as angiosperms. The two richest families among the ferns were Polypodiaceae and Pteridaceae, whereas among the arboreal angiosperms, Leguminosae and Myrtaceae stood out, confirming the floristic profile of the lower Tibagi River basin. Among the species, 12 can be classified as naturalized and 21 are among the threatened species in the state of Paraná, besides the inclusion of species whose collections were reduced in Brazil. These results indicate the MGSP as an important area for the representation of the Seasonal Semideciduous Forest in northern Paraná.
Incorporação da tecnologia da informação na Atenção Básica do SUS no Nordeste do Brasil: expectativas e experiências
Authors: Gava Marília , Ferreira Lisiane Seguti , Palhares Dario , Mota Eduardo Luiz Andrade
Published: March 2016

Resumo A incorporação de tecnologia da informação por meio do registro eletrônico de dados em saúde na atenção básica transforma a organização do trabalho e as práticas profissionais. O objetivo deste estudo é conhecer as expectativas e a experiência da informatização nos serviços de atenção básica do SUS na implantação do Sistema Cartão Nacional de Saúde (SCNS), Cartão SUS. Pesquisa qualitativa, que compara, por meio de 50 entrevistas e 96 questionários, a opinião dos profissionais de saúde sobre a inovação tecnológica, em locais “Sem” e “Com” o SCNS, nos municípios de João Pessoa (Paraíba) e de Aracaju (Sergipe), respectivamente. Há expectativa de que a informatização reduz o tempo para execução do trabalho, o que não foi confirmado pelo local informatizado. A informatização traz melhorias na organização do trabalho, para os usos da informação e possibilita a inserção digital do profissional. A tecnologia “leve” da atividade de cuidado da saúde não é reproduzida pela informatização, a qual aumenta a necessidade de incorporação de saberes aos profissionais, melhora as condições de trabalho, organiza a coleta de dados, aproxima os usos da informação por quem os registrou, e amplia a capacidade de gestão das políticas de saúde.
Situação da alimentação complementar de crianças entre 6 e 24 meses assistidas na Rede de Atenção Básica de Saúde de Macaé, RJ, Brasil
Authors: Marinho Leticia Maia Forte , Capelli Jane de Carlos Santana , Rocha Camilla Medeiros Macedo da , Bouskela Alice , Carmo Cleber Nascimento do , Freitas Silvia Eliza Almeida Pereira de , Anastácio Alexandra da Silva , Almeida Maria Fernanda Larcher de , Pontes Juliana da Silva
Published: March 2016

Resumo O estudo objetivou analisar a situação da alimentação complementar de crianças entre 6-24 meses assistidas na Atenção Básica de Saúde de Macaé/RJ. Realizou-se um estudo seccional e os dados foram obtidos do SisvanWEB, sendo incluídos e analisados todos os registros (n = 218) de crianças entre 6-24 meses, no ano de 2013. Em lactentes entre 6-12 meses detectou-se o consumo de 72,3% de verduras/legumes, 75,3% de frutas e 63,4% de carnes, sendo considerados indicadores de alimentação complementar saudável. Em contrapartida, 23,8% já consumiam alimentos fontes de açúcar (mel, melado, açúcar simples e rapadura), 34,7% suco industrializado e 17,8% refrigerantes. O consumo de suco industrializado foi significativamente maior em meninos (p valor < 0,001). Em crianças entre 12-18 meses detectou-se que 77,6% consumiam verduras/legumes, 77,4% frutas e 86,3% carnes. O consumo de alimentos fontes de açúcar era de 31%, 58,6% de suco industrializado e 50% de refrigerantes. Entre 18-24 meses, observou-se 89,9% das crianças consumindo verduras/legumes, 83,1% frutas e 96,7% carnes. O consumo de alimentos fontes de açúcar foi de 33,9%, 69,5% de suco industrializado e 55,5% de refrigerantes. Conclui-se que os indicadores de alimentação complementar saudável se aproximam da meta do Ministério da Saúde (80%).
Violência contra crianças no cenário brasileiro
Authors: Nunes Antonio Jakeulmo , Sales Magda Coeli Vitorino
Published: March 2016

Resumo A violência é um fenômeno social e de saúde pública, com maior exacerbação quando acontece na infância, provocando um impacto no desenvolvimento e uma catastrófica repercussão no comportamento na vida adulta. O objetivo deste artigo é caracterizar por meio das evidências científicas a violência infantil no cenário brasileiro. Utilizou-se uma revisão integrativa da literatura, tendo como fonte de pesquisa as bases de dados Lilacs e SciELO no período de agosto de 2013. Dentre as publicações identificadas seis mostraram a negligência como principal tipo de violência, cinco discorreram que o sexo masculino é o gênero mais atingido e dez afirmaram que o agressor sempre é um membro da família. Ainda neste cerne, torna-se evidente que os pais são os maiores perpetradores da violência contra crianças, destacando-se a mãe como a maior agressora. Os resultados demonstram a necessidade de se identificar precocemente todos os tipos de violência, sobretudo a negligência, reconhecendo que não há distinção significativa da violência entre os sexos e sendo o ambiente familiar o local mais propício para o desenvolvimento dos eventos violentos.
Oferta e demanda na atenção domiciliar em saúde
Authors: Braga Patrícia Pinto , Sena Roseni Rosângela de , Seixas Clarissa Terenzi , Castro Edna Aparecida Barbosa de , Andrade Angélica Mônica , Silva Yara Cardoso
Published: March 2016

Resumo As mudanças no perfil demográfico e epidemiológico da população brasileira e a necessidade de repensar o modelo de atenção em saúde têm levado diversos países, como o Brasil, a pensar a Atenção Domiciliar (AD) como estratégia de atenção. Porém, identifica-se uma lacuna entre a oferta de serviços de AD, as demandas por cuidados e as necessidades em saúde apresentadas pela população. Assim, este artigo analisa as produções científicas, quanto à configuração das relações entre oferta, demanda e necessidades relacionadas à atenção domiciliar em saúde. Trata-se de uma revisão integrativa da literatura nas bases de dados: Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), Literatura Latino Americana e do Caribe em Ciências da Saúde (Lilacs), Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online (Medline) e Web of Science. Apesar de poucos artigos se aterem a essa questão, há evidências de que as demandas e as necessidades em saúde pouco têm sido levadas em conta para pensar a organização dos serviços de AD, tanto quantitativa quanto qualitativamente. A análise permite inferir que há um déficit na oferta de serviços de AD no contexto nacional e internacional considerando as demandas por cuidados e necessidades de saúde que se apresentam.
Homicídios e vulnerabilidade social
Authors: Tavares Ricardo , Catalan Valeria Dutra Batista , Romano Pedro Machado de Melo , Melo Elza Machado
Published: March 2016

Resumo O objetivo deste estudo foi analisar a distribuição espacial das taxas de homicídios (H) segundo os índices de vulnerabilidade social (IVS) e de qualidade de vida urbana (IQVU), em Betim/MG, de 2006 a 2011. Foram feitas análise descritiva, análise de correlação espacial utilizando o índice de Moran e análise espacial de H, IVS e IQVU. Ocorreram no período, 1.383 óbitos, com predomínio de homens (91,9%), de 15 a 24 anos (46,9%), pardos/pretos (76,9%), com ensino médio (51,1%) e solteiros (83,9%). Não se verificou autocorrelação espacial, indicando que a distribuição das taxas de homicídio é aleatória, o mesmo ocorrendo com o IVS e com o IQVU. Em conjunto, no entanto, houve sobreposição de H, IVS, IQV, o que foi analisado à luz de diferentes teorias explicativas do crime, desde as que abordam a desigualdade social, passando pelas que pautam o tráfico de armas e drogas até chegar às teorias de Durkheim e Habermas, respectivamente, anomia e colonização do mundo da vida. Conclusão: tanto do ponto de vista empírico como teórico, vulnerabilidade social e homicídio se mostram associados.