Abstract:

The Spring 2021 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and remains prescient in the digital age by providing readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares "the Triton among minnows."

As guest-editor Laura van den Berg writes in her introduction, "At its core, literature is perhaps about simultaneously engaging with the past, with the ugliness and strangeness and wonder of history, while also creating new shapes on the page…In all of the works included in this issue, I felt the awesome gale-force of imagination blowing through the lines and the sentences; I felt possibility; I felt a meaningful augmentation to the collective understanding taking place." The Spring 2021 issue features poetry and prose by Helen Phillips, Fernando Flores, Kaveh Akbar, Eloisa Amezcua, Carl Phillips, and many others.

摘要：

《 2021年春季》。Plowshares是屡获殊荣的新写作期刊。自1971年以来，Plowshares便发现并培养了当代美国文学中最新鲜的声音，并通过为读者提供各种格式的富有思想性和娱乐性的文学作品，在数字时代保持了先见之明。找出为什么《纽约时报》将Plowshares命名为“小鱼群中的Triton”。

正如客座编辑劳拉·范登·伯格（Laura van den Berg）在她的导言中写道：“从本质上讲，文学也许是与过去融为一体，充满了丑陋，陌生和历史奇观，同时还在页面上创造了新的形态……在本期中的作品中，我感受到了巨大的想象力在线条和句子中飞散；我感到了可能性；我对正在发生的集体理解有了有意义的增强。” 《 2021年春季》以海伦·菲利普斯，费尔南多·弗洛雷斯，卡夫·阿克巴尔，埃洛伊萨·阿梅斯夸，卡尔·菲利普斯等人的诗歌和散文为特色。