The Pushcart Prize 2006 XXX

by Henderson, Bill

• ISBN13: 9781888889420
• ISBN10: 188888942X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-12-26
• Publisher: Pushcart Pr

Summary

"[Henderson] has made it his mission over the last thirty-odd years to defy the dumbing down of literature and the culture at large."--Kirkus Reviews This edition of the long-honored anthology of small-press fiction, essays, and poetry marks its third decade, an amazing feat of survival and excellence. Like previous editions, The Pushcart Prize XXX presents over sixty selections picked from hundreds of little magazines and presses with the help of over 200 distinguished contributing editors. In the Pushcart tradition, this fascinating collection combines the work of today's luminaries with a host of new talents, creating an exciting assembly of diverse voices. Since 1976, The Pushcart Prize has been "the single best measure of the state of affairs in American literature today," according to the New York Times Book Review. Many of today's celebrated writers received their first recognition in The Pushcart Prize, which over the years has tracked small-press enthusiasms from traditional to experimental in an unsurpassed eclectic gathering.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 7
Presently in ruins	p. 23
The third thing	p. 39
Bright world	p. 47
Hadrian's wall	p. 49
Promenade	p. 65
Joyas Voladoras	p. 67
Her first elk	p. 70
Secret names	p. 83
Walker Evans is a spy on the Lexington avenue local	p. 90
Songs from the black chair	p. 105
The night Richard Pryor met Mudbone	p. 116
My unopened life	p. 120
Boyfriends	p. 122
Child, dead, in the rose garden	p. 138
Best and only	p. 160
End of the line	p. 164
Portrait of the artist as an old man	p. 171
After Herodotus	p. 184
Wild plums in blossom	p. 187
Ackerman in Eden	p. 188
Christmas 1910	p. 196
The death of Mayakovsky	p. 205
Proverbs	p. 207
Notes on uranium weapons and kitsch	p. 209
Hunters	p. 220
Rose of Sharon	p. 249
Shooting Kinesha	p. 251
Sabor a Mi	p. 254
Comfort	p. 269
The famous writers school : lessons from Faulkner's house	p. 273
You people	p. 282
Pearlie tells what happened at school	p. 284
Sad coincidence in the confessional mode with a borrowed movie trope	p. 286
Heavenly creatures : for wandering children and their deliquent mother	p. 289
The mechanics	p. 311
Luciferin	p. 327
American speaking	p. 329
The widow joy	p. 331
D/altered	p. 342
Throns. Thistles	p. 348
Mediterranean	p. 350
Jesus wept	p. 351
Skin teeth	p. 361
On the reality of the symbol	p. 362
Benediction : on being Boswell's Boswell	p. 365
The feeder	p. 383
Elevens	p. 388
Samantha	p. 393
The darkness together	p. 407
It is the nature of the wing	p. 420
A haze on the hills	p. 422
Chest X-ray	p. 423
Manhattans	p. 424
Our spring catalog	p. 440
DNA	p. 444
Picture	p. 446
Glaciology	p. 448
Glose	p. 455
Pursuit of the yellow house	p. 457
The brothers	p. 459
The invention of streetlights	p. 474
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