The 1997 Pushcart prize XXI
Subtitle: best of the small presses
By: edited by Bill Henderson with the Pushcart Prize editors ; poetry editors, William Matthews, Patricia Strachan
Publisher: Pushcart Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Wainscott, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 625
ISBN-13: 9780916366964
Subjects: American literature; Small presses
Other titles: Pushcart Prize XXI; Pushcart Prize 1997
Notes: "An annual small press reader."
Table of contents: title: Introduction  -- Bill Henderson; title: Proper gypsies  -- Bobbie Ann Mason; title: Love in the morning  -- Andre Dubus; title: The cry  -- J. Allyn Rosser; title: Crib  -- Kay Ryan; title: The slaughterhouse  -- Karen Halvorsen Schreck; title: Duke and Ellis  -- David Treuer; title: First sex  -- Richard Tayson; title: Bruce Springsteen and the story of us  -- Hope Edelman; title: One story  -- Dean Young; title: Daily affirmations  -- Erin McGraw; title: Japan  -- Billy Collins; title: Dark age : why Johnny can't dissent  -- Tom Frank; title: Two girls  -- Suzanne Gardinier; title: Venexia I -- Charles Wright.; title: A man-to-be  -- Ha Jin; title: What comes from the ground  -- Wendy Dutton; title: Scorn  -- Carol Frost; title: The last white man in Brooklyn  -- Michael Stephens; title: Facing into it  -- Eleanor Wilner; title: Take it or leave it  -- Robert Dana; title: Fanatics  -- Alan Shapiro; title: Basic algebra  -- Richard Jackson; title: Camo, dope & videotape  -- Harold Jaffe; title: From Basra to Bethlehem  -- Tom Paine; title: Big Ruthie imagines sex without pain  -- S.L. Wisenberg; title: Descending  -- Dave Smith; title: Crabcake  -- James Alan McPherson; title: A rented house in the country  -- James Reiss; title: Uttar Pradesh  -- August Kleinzahler; title: Neanderthal tongues  -- Ranbir Sidhu; title: Jerry's kid  -- Robert Schirmer; title: Happiness : a manifesto  -- Marilyn Chin; title: Time and space  -- Ira Sadoff; title: The secret nature of the mechanical rabbit  -- Pinckney Benedict; title: The revisionist -- Helen Schulman.; title: Lost  -- Peter Gordon; title: Spring snow  -- Arthur Sze; title: Cows, arrogance, the natures of things  -- Trudy Dittmar; title: Floor study  -- Martha Collins; title: Grievances and griefs by Robert Frost  -- Daniel Stern; title: Young man on Sixth Avenue  -- Mark Halliday; title: Winter in Los Angeles  -- Tom McNeal; title: Fetish  -- Loretta Collins; title: The Catskills remembered  -- Vivian Gornick; title: Stone flight  -- Eamon Grennan; title: The slip  -- Rachel Hadas; title: The weather in history  -- Daniel Meltzer; title: A relation of various accidents observable in some animals included in vacuo  -- William Monahan; title: Christmas tree  -- James Merrill; title: Looking in a deeper lair : a tribute to Wallace Stegner  -- Barry Lopez; title: Aliens  -- Kim Addonizio; title: Mercy  -- Sharon Solwitz; title: The dissolution of the world  -- Caroline A. Langston; title: Brown dog angel  -- Andrea Jeyaveeran; title: A wood near Athens -- Thom Gunn.; title: Disorder and early sorrow  -- George Packer; title: The button box  -- Grace Schulman; title: The shortest night  -- W.S. Merwin; title: Mad  -- Jewel Mogan; title: The tale of a kite  -- Steve Stern; title: Baby maker  -- Karla J. Kuban; title: The bridge  -- Daniel Orozco; title: The news  -- Ruth Stone; title: Note folded thirteen ways  -- Richard Garcia; title: Love songs for the SS  -- Michael Kaniecki; title: A dog was crying to-night in Wicklow also  -- Seamus Heaney; title: One moment on top of the earth  -- Naomi Shihab Nye; title: The ghost of soul-making  -- Michael S. Harper; title: Below Fourteenth Street  -- Gerald Stern; title: Special mention --; title: Contributors' notes --; title: Presses featured in the Pushcart Prize sine 1976 --; title: Contributing small presses --; title: Index.