Description |
569 pages ; 25 cm |
Note |
"20th anniversary." |
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"An annual small press reader." |
Contents |
Introduction / Bill Henderson -- Pity / Avner Mandelman -- Anna Liffey / Eavan Boland -- Magic / Art Homer -- The first day / Elizabeth Spires -- Wilma Bremer's funeral / Marie Sheppard Williams -- Something like happiness / Stephen Dunn -- The match / Maxine Kumin -- Theories of illusion / Maureen Seaton -- Last things / Debra Spark -- My friend / David St. John -- Super night / Charles Baxter -- The era of the Vari-Vue / Gary Fincke -- My father's Chinese wives / Sandra Tsing Loh -- The storm chasers / William Olsen -- The end of the world / Michael Collins -- Solo, New Orleans / Diann Blakely Shoaf -- Sex / Irma Wallen -- Eighteenth-century medical illustration : the infant in its little room / Ann Townsend -- The nearness of the world / Steven Huff -- Film noir : train trip out of Metropolis / Lynn Emanuel -- Videotape / Don DeLillo -- Seizure / Linda Bierds -- Bad / Frederick Busch -- The barbarians are coming / Marilyn Chin -- The swing of of things / Jennifer C. Cornell -- History books / Thomas Lux -- The more I like flies / Reginald McKnight -- Anaconda / Dennis Sampson -- The undesirable table / Joyce Carol Oats -- Stillborn / Maribeth Fischer -- A history of paisley / Agha Shahid Ali -- Kingdom of the sun / Alice Schell -- Sung from a hospice / Cyrus Cassells -- The instinct for bliss / Melissa Pritchard -- Dante's inferno, canto XXXIV / Robert Pinsky -- Elizabeth Bishop / Frank Bidart -- Loss / Carl Dennis -- Closing out the visit / John Barth -- Will work for food / Stanley Plumly -- Mother-tongue / Nora Cobb Keller -- Conversations on the plurality of worlds / Molly Bendall -- When words became windows / Sven Birkerts -- Chinese food in the fifties / Alberto Rios -- The late style / James Robison -- Of royal issue / Brigit Peggen Kelly -- The women come and go / Cornelia Nixon -- Sadness, an improvisation / Donald Justice -- Updike and I / John Updike -- Evolution : a science fiction / Melinda Mueller -- Milk / Eileen Pollack -- A little thing like that / A.R. Ammons -- False water society / Ben Marcus -- In the pasture of dead horses / Julia Wendell -- A happy vacancy / Stephen Dobyns -- Elizabeth, listening / Sabina Grogan -- Six days : some rememberings / Grace Paley -- Phlox Diffusa / Sandra McPherson -- The ring of brightest angels around heaven / Rick Moody -- The deconstruction of Emily Dickinson / Galway Kinnell -- Charles the obscure / Charles Simic -- Special mention -- Presses featured in the Pushcart Prize Editions since 1976 -- Contributors' notes -- Contributing small presses -- Index |
Subject |
American literature -- 20th century.
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American literature -- History and criticism.
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Added Author |
Henderson, Bill, 1941-
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Added Title |
1996 The Pushcart Prize XX. |
ISBN |
0916366995 |
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0916366634 paperback |
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