The Pushcart prize XXX, 2006: best of the small presses

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Pushcart Press

Publication Date:

[2006]

Edition:

30th anniversary ed

Language:

English

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30th anniversary ed

539 pages ; 25 cm

Description

A yearly anthology of fiction, essays and poetry from the small presses chosen by writers.

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Table of Contents

From the Book - 30th anniversary ed
Introduction / Bill Henderson --
Presently in ruins / Gregory Blake Smith --
Third thing / Donald Hall --
Bright world / Carl Phillips --
Hadrian's wall / Jim Shepard --
Promenade / Joshua Mehigan --
Joyas voladoras / Brian Doyle --
Her first elk / Rick Bass --
Secret names / David Mamet --
Walker Evans is a spy on the Lexington Avenue local / Valerie Sayers --
Songs from the black chair / Charles Barber
The night Richard Pryor met mudbone /
A. Van Jordan --
My unopened life / Tess Gallagher --
Boyfriends / Cynthia Weiner --
Child, dead, in the rose garden / E.L. Doctorow --
Best and only / Andrew Feld --
End of the line / Aimee Bender --
Portrait of the artist as an old man / Edward Hirsch --
After Herodotus / Tom Sleigh --
Wild plums in blossom / Ted Kooser --
Ackerman in Eden / Donald Hays --
Christmas 1910 / Robert Olen Butler --
Death of Mayakovsky / Philip Levine --
Proverbs / Angie Estes --
Notes on uranium weapons and kitsch / George Gessert --
Hunters / John Fulton --
Rose of Sharon / Brigit Pegeen Kelly --
Shooting Kinesha / Daisy Fried --
Sabor a Mi / Alex Mindt --
Comfort / Ann Hood --
Famous writers school : lessons from Faulkner's house / Cynthia Shearer --
You people / Nance Van Winckel --
Pearlie tells what happened at school / Diane Gilliam Fisher --
Sad coincidence in the confessional mode with a borrowed movie trope / Lucia Perillo --
Heavenly creatures: for wandering children and their delinquent mother / Melanie Rae Thon --
Mechanics / Paul Zimmer --
Luciferin / Dean Young --
American speaking / David Rivard --
Widow joy / Rosellen Brown --
D/altered / James McKean --
Thorns, thistles / Daniel Anderson --
Mediterranean / Rosanna Warren --
Jesus wept / R.T. Smith --
Skin teeth / Neisha Tweed --
On the reality of the symbol / Geoffrey Hill --
Benediction: on being Boswell's Boswell / David Gessner --
Feeder / Ellen Bryant Voigt --
Elevens / Stanley Plumly --
Samantha / Robert Boyers --
Darkness together / Steve Almond --
It is the nature of the wing / Frank Gaspar --
Haze on the hills / Pamela Stewart --
Chest x-ray / Amy Bartlett --
Manhattans / Frederick Busch --
Our spring catalog / Jack Pendarvis --
DNA / Linda Bierds --
Picture / Atsuro Riley --
Glaciology / Lia Purpura --
Glose / Marilyn Hacker --
Pursuit of the yellow house / Robin Behn --
Brothers / Lysley Tenorio --
Invention of streetlights / Cole Swensen --
Special mention --
Presses featured in the Pushcart Prize editions since 1976 --
Founding members of the Pushcart Prize fellowships --
Contributors' notes --
Index.

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American literature
American literature -- 21st century
Small presses
Small presses -- United States

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Pushcart Press
Henderson, Bill,1941-

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9781888889192
9781888889420
9781888889215

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