| Edition |
Twenty-ninth anniversary edition. |
| Description |
560 pages ; 24 cm |
| Note |
"An annual small press reader." |
| Contents |
Introduction / Bill Henderson -- Immortality / Yiyun Li -- Beetle orgy / Benjamin Scott Grossberg -- Noikokyrio / Alison Cadbury -- Brother death, sister life / Donald Platt -- Fast Sunday / Sue Standing -- Wonder: red beans and ricely / Sydney Lea -- Dues / Dale Peck -- Waiting for the Messiah / Chana Bloch -- Dog song / Ann Pancake -- Someone naked and adorable / David Kirby -- Raging waters / Brenda Miller -- Quelquechose / Dana Levin -- I am not your mother / Alice Mattison -- Chair / Donna Masini -- Physics and grief / Patricia Monaghan -- Landscape with hungry gulls / Lance Larsen -- Irish martyr / Russell Working -- Scattering my mother's ashes on the family plot at Hickman, Kentucky / Doug Anderson -- Hurt man / Wendell Berry -- My brother, Antonio, the baker / Philip Levine -- Speed of memory / Brad K. Younkin. |
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Horseflies / Robert Wrigley -- Core / Jack Herlihy -- God's penis / Jeffrey Harrison -- Death in Naples / Mary Gordon -- from The face / David St. John -- Bullet in my neck / Gerald Stern -- When Dean Young talks about wine / Tony Hoagland -- God lives in St. Petersburg / Tom Bissell -- Untitled / Catherine Barnett -- Real Eleanor Rigby / Alice Fulton -- Ectoplimaniessence / Hayden Carruth -- Fantastic voyage / Emily Fox Gordon -- Anyways / Suzanne Cleary -- Claire / Steven Barthelme -- Tour daufuskie / Terrance Hayes -- Poison that purifies you / Elizabeth Kadetsky -- Elegy for the saint of letting small fish go / Eliot Khalil Wilson -- Shunned / Meredith Hall -- Walking after dinner / Patricia Staton -- Gina's death / Charles Baxter -- To tell the literal truth / Steven Kowit -- Apology / Brock Clarke. |
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Can't you hear the wind howl? / Frank X. Gaspar -- Squeeze / Barbara Hurd -- There / Eamon Grennan -- Virtuoso mio / Karen Palmer -- Chinese foot chart / Kay Ryan -- Geographers at Mardi Gras / Andrei Codrescu -- Flayed man / Nadine Meyer -- Juan the cell phone salesman / Deb Olin Unferth -- To the surgeon Kevin Lin / W.S. Merwin -- Avian nights / Sherman Alexie -- Roman erotic poetry / Albert Goldbarth -- Triptych / Dick Allen -- Lost victories / William T. Vollmann -- Hedonism / David Baker -- Reading in his wake / Pamela Painter -- Greek ships / Robert Bly -- from Urban renewal / Major Jackson -- Special Mention -- Presses featured in the Pushcart Prize editions since 1976 -- Contributing small presses -- Founding members of the Pushcart Prize Fellowships-- Contributors' notes -- Index. |
| Summary |
A yearly anthology of fiction, essays and poetry from the small presses chosen by writers. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Subject |
American literature -- 21st century.
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Small presses -- United States.
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| Added Author |
Henderson, Bill, 1941-
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Pushcart Press.
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| Added Title |
Pushcart prize XXIX |
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Pushcart prize 29 |
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Pushcart prize twenty-nine |
| ISBN |
188888939X paperback |
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1888889403 hardcover |
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