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The Pushcart Prize XLVII : best of the small presses 2023 /

In last year's Pushcart Prize, editor Bill Henderson noted that the Pushcart Prize, "the small good thing, has evolved into an international prize drawing nominations from small presses around the globe." As always, the selections are made by a distinguished panel of Guest Editors and...

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Group Author: Henderson, Bill, 1941- (Editor)
Published: Pushcart Press,
Publisher Address: Wainscott, N.Y. :
Publication Dates: [2023]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Edition: 2023 edition.
Series: Pushcart prize
Subjects:
2000-2099
American literature > 21st century.
American literature > History and criticism.
American poetry > 21st century.
American essays > 21st century.
Short stories, American > 21st century.
Small presses > United States.
Autobiography.
American poetry.
American essays.
American literature.
Short stories, American.
Small presses.
Essays.
Poetry.
United States.
Short stories.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Autobiographies.
Summary: In last year's Pushcart Prize, editor Bill Henderson noted that the Pushcart Prize, "the small good thing, has evolved into an international prize drawing nominations from small presses around the globe." As always, the selections are made by a distinguished panel of Guest Editors and hundreds of Contributing Editors. The list of authors, selected and encouraged over the decades, is immense. (An index to previous volumes is included in each edition.)--Amazon
Carrier Form: 570 pages ; 24 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780960097791
0960097791
Index Number: PS536
CLC: I712.065
Call Number: I712.065/P987/2023
Contents: Introduction --
Ambivalence /
Talking to the hedgerows about money /
Open water /
The glacier /
Standing in the forest of being alive /
The children are fragile /
Dear friends /
Mantis /
The Cloud Lake unicorn /
1940 /
Fire and ice /
The observable world /
Both sissies /
Loquats /
The toll /
Bad dog /
Sweet potato /
The thermopolium /
Against mastery /
How do you roll /
The kiss /
Father Weaver /
Utter, Earth /
Colonial conditions /
Love & the memory of it /
A brief history of the war /
Back /
Tikkun Olam Ted /
During the pandemic I listen to the July 26th 1965, Juan Les Pins recording of "A Love Supreme" /
Unknown /
Bock rottom /
Fire /
Million million /
If your dreams don't scare you /
Screensaver /
Half spent /
White spaces /
The uncertainty principle /
Dear Coroner, how could you know /
Slut days /
Pearl Ghazal /
Fireflies /
I see a silence /
Remembrance poppy /
To cigarettes /
Skinfolk /
A child of North America /
Autobiography via forgetting /
When the body says no but you can't stop swallowing /

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