| Description |
606 pages ; 25 cm |
| Note |
"An annual small press reader" |
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Includes index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Bill Henderson -- As kingfishers catch fire / Colum McCann -- A Hemingway story / Andre Dubus -- The lectures on love / Edward Hirsch -- The Revenant / Edward Falco -- Grandmother, dead at 99 years and 10 months / William Matthews -- The turkey stories / Julie Showalter -- Thanksgiving / Martín Espada -- Happiness / Bharati Mukherjee -- The book of the dead man #87 / Marvin Bell -- Splinters / Melvin Jules Bukiet -- There goes the Nobel Prize / Carol Muske -- Pornography / Angela Shaw -- The bill collector's vacation / Patricia Hampl -- Abundance / Carol Philips -- Timeshare / Jeffrey Eugenides -- Urban anthropology / Alec Wilkinson -- Invisible dreams / Toi Derricotte -- July / Beth Chimera -- The weather they were written in / Kathy Fagan -- The ninth, in E minor / Frederick Busch -- Junk / Gordon Cavenaile -- Zealous / Joshua Clover -- The Burial / Steven Dixon -- Mission poem / Tarin Towers -- Let's not talk politics, please / John J. Clayton -- The most responsible girl / Emily Fox Gordon -- Carpe diem : time piece / Marilyn Krysl -- Stupid girl / Louis Berney -- Vandals, horses / Alan Michael Parker -- Tea at the house / Meg Wolitzer -- Autumnal / Mark Irwin -- Bodysurfing / Richard Burgin -- Two journeys / Philip Levine -- Once a shoot of heaven / Beckian Fritz Goldberg -- Valor / Richard Bausch. |
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Invocation / Marilyn Hacker -- Bad boy number seventeen / Lucia Perillo -- Histories of bodies / Mariko Nagai -- In the midst of sisters / Jane McCafferty -- Prayer / Grace Schulman -- Cybermorphic beat-up get-down subterranean homesick reality-sandwich blues / Lance Olsen -- O Eve / Rosemary C. Hildebrandt -- Faithless / Joyce Carol Oates -- Before the beginning : maybe God and a silk flower concubine perhaps / Pattiann Rogers -- Direct male / Risa Mickenberg -- Like God / Lynn Emanuel -- The first annual performance art festival at the Slaughter Rock battlefield / Thomas M. Disch -- Sad song / Laura Kasischke -- The seven sisters / Aurelie Sheehan -- The cup / Katrina Roberts -- Blowing shades / Stuart Dybek -- Earthly light / Marcia Southwick -- Mr. Agreeable / Kirk Nesset -- Eye shadows / Judith Taylor -- The order of things / Nancy Richard -- Meditation on an aphorism by Wallace Stevens : "A poem is a pheasant" / Jeffrey Harrison -- Los Angeles, the angels / James Harms -- Flower children / Maxine Swann -- Sewing without mother : a zuihitsu / Kimiko Hahn -- The old morgue / Francine Prose -- Mis-sayings / Mary Kuryla -- From Rosary / Barbara Tran -- Girls like you / Jennifer Moses -- Monologue of the falconer's wife / Colette Inez -- Ernie's ark / Monica Wood -- Lies / Martha Collins -- Peace plan : meditation on the 9 stages of "peacemaking" as tribute to Senator Claiborne Pell : 1997 / Michael S. Harper -- Descending / Mark Wisniewski -- Blue Kashmir, '74 / Carol Muske -- 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 |
Pushcart prize 1999 XXIII |
| ISBN |
1888889098 |
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1888889136 (pbk) |
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