Pushcart prize XLI, 2017 : best of the small presses /

"'Resounding testimony to the persistence of intelligent, creative, and compassionate expression' commented Booklist on last year's Pushcart Prize. 'A wonderful edition' said Publishers Weekly. Features appeared in The New York Times Book Review and elsewhere. Pushcart&...

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Corporate Authors: Pushcart Press.
Group Author: Henderson, Bill, 1941- (Editor)
Published: Pushcart Prize Fellowships,
Publisher Address: Wainscott, New York :
Publication Dates: [2017]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
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Summary: "'Resounding testimony to the persistence of intelligent, creative, and compassionate expression' commented Booklist on last year's Pushcart Prize. 'A wonderful edition' said Publishers Weekly. Features appeared in The New York Times Book Review and elsewhere. Pushcart's 41st Edition is edited with the assistance of 200 distinguished Contributing Editors and was selected from more than 8,000 stories, essays, and poetry nominated by a complete roster of today's outstanding non-commercial publishers. The Pushcart Prize has been honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award from The National Book Critics Circle, the Writers for Writers Award from Poets & Writers/Barnes & Noble and is acclaimed by readers and reviewers internationally"--Amazon.com.
Item Description: "0149-7863."
Carrier Form: 640 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9781888889826 (paperback) :
1888889829 (paperback)
9781888889819 (hardcover)
1888889810 (hardcover)
Index Number: PS536
CLC: I712.065
Call Number: I712.065/P987/2017
Contents: The story of a true artist /
I sing you for an apple /
Elk /
The G.R.I.E.F. /
Anna May Wong blows out sixteen candles /
The hornet among us /
The spring forecast /
Avarice /
Scream (or never minding) /
Still when I picture it the face of God is a white man's face /
The George Spelvin Players /
The revolt of the turtles /
If you can't say anything nice write a one-star review /
Basement delivery /
Naming happiness /
The antique blacks /
Taxidermy /
The beating heart of the wristwatch /
Winter wheat /
Consider Oedipus' father /
The mushroom queen /
Cocaine /
Beets /
The tallgrass shuffles /
The Devil's Triangle /
The brain is not the United States /
New technologies of reading /
Please bury me in this /
The five-pound burrito /
Daddy dozens /
Dr. J /
Pluto's Gate : Mississippi /
Forty-two /
We would never sleep /
Priest /
Walk /
Voltaire night /
More than this /
Narrator /
100 bells /
Trash food /
Thank you terror /
The line agent Pascal /
The Luoyang poem /
The physics of turtles /
Etta James at the Audubon Ballroom /
A local's guide to dating in Slocomb County /
Spiritual evaluation /
Finders keepers /
Hurricane song /
Things I know to be true /
Forgotten sound /
After reading Peter Bichsel /
Idyll /
Fail again /
I dream of horses eating cops /
Midterm /
The raptor /
Resting place /
The invitation /
Hospice /
Mistress Mickle all at sea /
Laika /
The Carnation Milk Palace /
Cross your fingers God bless /
The tradition /
Blue of the world /
Dritter Klasse ohne Fensterscheiben /
Cleaning the ghost room /
Safe home /
Bloodlines /