The Pushcart prize, VIII
Subtitle: best of the small presses-- with an index to the first eight volumes : an annual small press reader
By: edited by Bill Henderson with the Pushcart Prize editors ; introduction by Gail Godwin
Edition: 1983-84 ed.
Publisher: Pushcart Press
Published: 1983
Place of publication: Wainscott, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 528
ISBN-13: 9780916366186
Subjects: American literature; Small presses
Other titles: Pushcart prize 8; Pushcart prize eight
Table of contents: title: Introduction  -- Gail Godwin; title: A small, good thing  -- Raymond Carver; title: The end of the world  -- Thomas McGrath; title: The company we keep : self-making in imaginative art, old and new  -- Wayne C. Booth; title: Each bird walking  -- Tess Gallagher; title: The decimation before Phraata  -- Alan Dugan; title: Prayer for the dying  -- Willis Johnson; title: Those destroyed by success  -- William Dickey; title: Moles  -- Mary Oliver; title: Memories of unhousement, a memoir  -- Clark Blaise; title: How to write a poem  -- Gordon Lish; title: Persimmons  -- Li-Young Lee; title: Confederate graves in Little Rock  -- Richard Hugo; title: Quarrel  -- Ellen Bryant Voight; title: Graveyard day  -- Bobbie Ann Mason; title: The dishwasher  -- Robert McBrearty; title: The pond at dusk  -- Jane Kenyon; title: Sitting between two mirrors  -- James Baker Hall; title: from A sequence on Sidney Lanier  -- Andrew Hudgins; title: Summer, an elegy  -- Ellen Gilchrist; title: Notes on failure  -- Joyce Carol Oates; title: Sonnet  -- Stanley Plumly; title: Marcus Garvey arrested at the 125th Street station  -- John Allman; title: The weaver  -- Ann Stanford; title: Samba de los agentes  -- Andrei Codrescu; title: Crane and Carlsen : a memoir (1926-1934)  -- Lincoln Kirstein; title: Carolyn at twenty  -- Patricia Dobler; title: The house that fear built : Warsaw, 1943  -- Jane Flanders; title: Hidden justice  -- Gerald Stern; title: Judgment  -- Kate Wheeler; title: What literature means  -- Cynthia Ozick; title: A valediction  -- W.D. Snodgrass; title: I knew I'd sing  -- Heather McHugh; title: Remembering Titian's martyrdom of St. Lawrence  -- Jorie Graham; title: Robo-wash  -- Jean Davidson; title: The stench  -- Jillian Becker; title: Procession  -- Philip Booth; title: Lining up  -- Richard Howard; title: The longing  -- John Daniel; title: The time, the place, the loved one  -- Susan Welch; title: Avant-garde mastery  -- Thomas LeClair; title: Zoë  -- Diane Ackerman; title: Hamlen Brook  -- Richard Wilbur; title: The man of many L's  -- Maxine Kumin; title: Uncle Balt and the nature of being  -- William Gass; title: The reedbeds of the Hackensack  -- Amy Clampitt; title: Dream vision  -- Raymond Oliver; title: The desire and pursuit of the part  -- Henri Coulette; title: Age  -- Janet Desaulniers; title: Being and Judaism  -- Oscar Mandel; title: That bright grey eye  -- Hilda Morely; title: Great-aunt Francesca  -- Joe-Anne McLaughlin; title: Indian boarding school : the runaways  -- Louise Erdrich; title: The eight stages of translation  -- Robert Bly; title: The woman who lives in the botanical gardens  -- Alexis De Veaux; title: Sapphics against anger  -- Timothy Steele; title: Tutka Bay, Alaska  -- Anita Wilkins; title: Contributors' notes.