| Description |
574 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
"Holy fools" : introduction / Edward Hoagland -- Glossolalia / David Jauss -- Anonymity / Susan Bergman -- The cleaving / Li-Young Lee -- Bill Weisler / Ursula K. Le Guin -- Three propositions : hooey, dewey, and loony / Marvin Bell -- Little owl who lives in the orchard / Mary Oliver -- Night sweats / Gwen Head -- The gift / William Stafford -- Bocci / Renée Manfredi -- Visitors / Katha Pollitt -- Sweet ruin / Tony Hoagland -- Against the text "art is immortal" / Alan Dugan -- The box / Susan Straight -- One thousand words on why you should not talk during a fire drill / Mark Halliday -- Mighty forms / Brenda Hillman -- Long, disconsolate lines / Jane Cooper -- The dream / William Matthews -- The hair / Joyce Carol Oates -- Writers and their songs / William Kennedy -- Strong pomegranate flowers and seeds of the mind / Linda Gregg -- When they leave / George Keithly -- Woman who weeps / Ellen Bryant Voight -- Nosotros / Janet Peery -- Books oft have such a charm : a memory / William J. Scheick -- Chinese fireworks banned in Hawaii / Eric Chock -- 1989, Gilette, our navy / David Romtvedt -- Jane Addams (September 6, 1860-May 21, 1935) / Gwendolyn Brooks -- The stuff men are made of / Felipe Alfau -- Maintenance / Naomi Shihab Nye -- Gift shop in Pecs / Len Roberts -- Sesame / Jack Marshall -- Seeing you / Jean Valentine -- Raisin faces / Helen Norris -- River girls / Jeanne Dixon -- Third Dungeness Spit apocalypse / Nelson Bentley -- Stories / F.L. Chandonnet -- Text / Melinda Davis -- Portable people / Paul West -- The dead body itself / Sharon Olds -- What they wanted / Stephen Dunn -- The limbo dancer / Josephine Jacobsen -- Past, future, elsewhere / Eileen Pollack -- Two stories / Diane Williams -- The Donald Barthelme blues / Charles Baxter -- Media / Howard Nemerov -- Lava / Adam Zagajewski -- Waiting for Mr. Kim / Carol Roh-Spaulding -- The facts behind the Helsinki Roccamatios / Yann Martel -- There are no ties at first base / Ted Cohen -- A call from Kotzebue / Ben Groff -- The pyroxenes / James Merrill -- White boot / Michael McClure -- Ravens at Deer Creek / Robert Wrigley -- Sun spots / Christopher Buckley -- One Way / Jess Mowry -- Special mention -- Presses featured in the Pushcart Prize Editions (1976-1991) -- Contributing small presses -- Index -- Contributors' notes. |
| 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 |
1991/1992 The Pushcart Prize XVI. |
| ISBN |
0916366715 |
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