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Pleiades: Literature in Context is a literary biannual featuring poetry, fiction, essays, and reviews by authors from around the world. Past contributors include winners of the Nobel, Ruth Lilly, Pulitzer, Bollingen, Prix de la Liberté, and Neustadt Prizes, recipients of Guggenheim, Whiting, National Book Critics Circle and National Book Awards, and many writers seeing their work in print for the first time.
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Volume 41, Number 1, Winter 2020Table of Contents
- Spoken like a true, and: anodyne
- pp. 8-11
- DOI: 10.1353/plc.2020.0187
- Forgiven
- pp. 12-13
- DOI: 10.1353/plc.2020.0189
- The Execution of Goemon
- pp. 14-16
- DOI: 10.1353/plc.2020.0209
- Translation Folio
- pp. 17-23
- DOI: 10.1353/plc.2020.0200
- Harm Joy
- pp. 24-34
- DOI: 10.1353/plc.2020.0176
- Taking Touches from a Toy
- pp. 35-36
- DOI: 10.1353/plc.2020.0197
- Go for Your Guns
- p. 37
- DOI: 10.1353/plc.2020.0194
- I Will Never Erase You
- pp. 38-40
- DOI: 10.1353/plc.2020.0178
- Summer of Bombs
- pp. 41-58
- DOI: 10.1353/plc.2020.0220
- Reanimating Ancestors Guest Editor Note
- pp. 61-62
- DOI: 10.1353/plc.2020.0180
- Illuminated Manuscripts, Part I
- pp. 71-72
- DOI: 10.1353/plc.2020.0201
- excerpt from Given in the Folding
- pp. 78-84
- DOI: 10.1353/plc.2020.0218
- from When the World Stopped Touching
- pp. 85-90
- DOI: 10.1353/plc.2020.0202
- Ambient Mom
- pp. 94-97
- DOI: 10.1353/plc.2020.0226
- from Banana [ ]: A History of the Americas
- pp. 98-105
- DOI: 10.1353/plc.2020.0224
- People Who Work Here Don’t Work Here
- pp. 106-108
- DOI: 10.1353/plc.2020.0179
- from A Weaving
- pp. 109-112
- DOI: 10.1353/plc.2020.0182
- Children of the Nareepol Tree
- pp. 113-123
- DOI: 10.1353/plc.2020.0205
- Aguadilla, PR
- p. 124
- DOI: 10.1353/plc.2020.0222
- The Lost Language 3
- pp. 125-126
- DOI: 10.1353/plc.2020.0215
- Souls Must Exist
- p. 127
- DOI: 10.1353/plc.2020.0199
- Novenas to Mothers Returned
- pp. 128-132
- DOI: 10.1353/plc.2020.0211
- Of Thumbs A Predictive Text Essay
- pp. 133-139
- DOI: 10.1353/plc.2020.0223
- The Avian Hourglass
- pp. 140-148
- DOI: 10.1353/plc.2020.0212
- Desert Triptych, and: Lifestyle Factors
- pp. 149-152
- DOI: 10.1353/plc.2020.0190
- Self-Portrait as Unexploded Ordnance
- pp. 154-155
- DOI: 10.1353/plc.2020.0213
- Dangerous Weather
- pp. 156-165
- DOI: 10.1353/plc.2020.0186
- Comic Interlude, and: Resurrections
- pp. 166-168
- DOI: 10.1353/plc.2020.0191
- Black Docent
- pp. 169-170
- DOI: 10.1353/plc.2020.0210
- Manduca
- pp. 171-173
- DOI: 10.1353/plc.2020.0203
- Requiem of Sundown Mothers
- p. 175
- DOI: 10.1353/plc.2020.0177
- Two Brothers
- p. 176
- DOI: 10.1353/plc.2020.0208
- Money Chickens
- pp. 177-189
- DOI: 10.1353/plc.2020.0225
- Cat Man’s Caravan
- pp. 190-195
- DOI: 10.1353/plc.2020.0181
- It Was the Year of the Dog
- p. 196
- DOI: 10.1353/plc.2020.0192
- The Scar Will Look Like a Face
- pp. 197-198
- DOI: 10.1353/plc.2020.0185
- On a Field in the Present
- p. 199
- DOI: 10.1353/plc.2020.0219
- Hair Receivers
- pp. 200-202
- DOI: 10.1353/plc.2020.0216
- Dust Thou Art
- pp. 203-207
- DOI: 10.1353/plc.2020.0217
- Bat
- pp. 208-209
- DOI: 10.1353/plc.2020.0206
- Errant Eagle
- pp. 210-211
- DOI: 10.1353/plc.2020.0193
- Contributors’ Notes
- pp. 214-221
- DOI: 10.1353/plc.2020.0188