The Pushcart Prize XXIII: Best of the Small Presses, 1999 - ed. Bill Henderson

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The Pushcart Prize XXIII: Best of the Small Presses, 1999
Edited by Bill Henderson

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Anthology #243
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Each year The Pushcart Prize presents the most distinguished short stories, poems and essays first published by small presses and magazines nationwide and each volume is hailed as a touchstone of literary discovery. The most honored literary series in America. The Pushcart Prize has won the The Carey Thomas Award, been selected many times as a notable book of the year by The New York Times Book Review. and has been chosen for several Book of the Month Club QPB selections. Pushcart Press and its Prize were named among the “most influential in the development of the American book business over the past century and a quarter, ” by Publishers Weekly.

Stories in this collection:

01) Introduction by Bill Henderson
02) As Kingfishers Catch Fire by Colum McCann
03) A Hemingway Story by Andre Dubus
04) The Lectures On Love by Edward Hirsch
05) The Revenant by Edward Falco
06) Grandmother, Dead at 99 Years and 10 Months by William Matthews
07) The Turkey Stories by Julie Showalter
08) Thanksgiving by Martín Espada
09) Happiness by Bharati Mukherjee
10) The Book of the Dead Man #87 by Marvin Bell
11) Splinters by Melvin Jules Bukiet
12) There Goes the Nobel Prize by Carol Muske
13) Pornography by Angela Shaw
14) The Bill Collector’s Vacation by Patricia Hampl
15) Abundance by Carol Philips
16) Timeshare by Jeffrey Eugenides
17) Urban Anthropology by Alec Wilkinson
18) Invisible Dreams by Toi Derricotte
19) July by Beth Chimera
20) The Weather They Were Written In by Kathy Fagan
21) The Ninth, in E Minor by Frederick Busch
22) Junk by Gordon Cavenaile
23) Zealous by Joshua Clover
24) The Burial by Steven Dixon
25) Mission Poem by Tarin Towers
26) Let’s Not Talk Politics, Please by John J. Clayton
27) The Most Responsible Girl by Emily Fox Gordon
28) Carpe Diem: Time Piece by Marilyn Krysl
29) Stupid Girl by Louis Berney
30) Vandals, Horses by Alan Michael Parker
31) Tea at the House by Meg Wolitzer
32) Autumnal by Mark Irwin
33) Bodysurfing by Richard Burgin
34) Two Journeys by Philip Levine
35) Once a Shoot of Heaven by Beckian Fritz Goldberg
36) Valor by Richard Bausch
37) Invocation by Marilyn Hacker
38) Bad Boy Number Seventeen by Lucia Perillo
39) Histories of Bodies by Mariko Nagai
40) In the Midst of Sisters by Jane McCafferty
41) Prayer by Grace Schulman
42) Cybermorphic Beat-Up Get-Down Subterranean Homesick Reality-Sandwich Blues by Lance Olsen
43) O Eve by Rosemary C. Hildebrandt
44) Faithless by Joyce Carol Oates
45) Before the Beginning: Maybe God and a Silk Flower Concubine Perhaps by Pattiann Rogers
46) Direct Male by Risa Mickenberg
47) Like God by Lynn Emanuel
48) The First Annual Performance Art Festival at the Slaughter Rock Battlefield by Thomas M. Disch
49) Sad Song by Laura Kasischke
50) The Seven Sisters by Aurelie Sheehan
51) The Cup by Katrina Roberts
52) Blowing Shades by Stuart Dybek
53) Earthly Light by Marcia Southwick
54) Mr. Agreeable by Kirk Nesset
55) Eye Shadows by Judith Taylor
56) The Order of Things by Nancy Richard
57) Meditation on an Aphorism by Wallace Stevens: “A Poem is a Pheasant” by Jeffrey Harrison
58) Los Angeles, the Angels by James Harms
59) Flower Children by Maxine Swann
60) Sewing Without Mother: A Zuihitsu by Kimiko Hahn
61) The Old Morgue by Francine Prose
62) Mis-Sayings by Mary Kuryla
63) From Rosary by Barbara Tran
64) Girls Like You by Jennifer Moses
65) Monologue of the Falconer’s Wife by Colette Inez
66) Ernie’s Ark by Monica Wood
67) Lies by Martha Collins
68) Peace Plan: Meditation on the 9 Stages of “Peacemaking” as Tribute to Senator Claiborne Pell: 1997 by Michael S. Harper
69) Descending by Mark Wisniewski
70) Blue Kashmir, ‘74 by Carol Muske
71) Special Mention
72) Presses Featured in the Pushcart Prize Editions Since 1976
73) Contributors’ Notes
74) Contributing Small Presses