The Pushcart Prize XXVI Best of the Small Presses 2002 Edition

by Henderson, Bill

• ISBN13: 9781888889314
• ISBN10: 1888889314
• Edition: 00
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-06-17
• Publisher: Pushcart Press

Summary

This exciting annual just keeps getting bigger and better.-Donna Seaman, "Booklist..." A tradition in American literature."-"Kirkus Reviews... ""Essential."-"Library Journal"

Table of Contents

Introduction	9	(16)
Bill Henderson
The Cavemen in the Hedges	25	(17)
Stacey Richter
Narrow Road to the Deep North	42	(15)
Gary Amdahl
Gratitude	57	(2)
Robert Cording
About Tere who was in Palomas	59	(15)
Dagoberto Gilb
Tomorrow's Bird	74	(4)
Ian Frazier
At Horticulture Park	78	(2)
Marianne Boruch
Returning to Providence	80	(11)
David Plante
Suitcase Song	91	(2)
Albert Goldbarth
An Official Reply	93	(17)
Ha Jin
Grief	110	(10)
Pamela Painter
My Night with Philip Larkin	120	(1)
Rachel Loden
The Ashes of August	121	(17)
Kim Barnes
Inventory	138	(2)
Eamon Grennan
Semper Paratus	140	(11)
Alyson Hagy
Kinds of Sleep	151	(2)
Kevin Prufer
The Secrets of Bats	153	(15)
Jess Row
A Short History of the Shadow	168	(2)
Charles Wright
Hippies	170	(15)
Denis Johnson
Creeley Cursing in Church	185	(1)
Rick Campbell
The Big-Breasted Pilgrim	186	(38)
Ann Beattie
Three Crows	224	(2)
Carol Potter
The Bad Seed: A Guide	226	(14)
Nicola Mason
Beetles	240	(2)
Steve Kowit
Khwaja Khadir	242	(13)
David James Duncan
It is Hard not to Love the World	255	(1)
Jim Moore
The Mourning Door	256	(10)
Elizabeth Graver
In Transit	266	(2)
John Hollander
O Lost	268	(18)
Thomas Wolfe
The Turning	286	(2)
Jeannette Barnes
Reflections of an Uncertain Jew	288	(10)
Andre Aciman
The Poet's Voice	298	(2)
Michael S. Harper
Melba Kuperschmid Returns	300	(6)
Peter M. Orner
Memory	306	(1)
Anthony Hecht
Alcyone	307	(4)
Talvikki Ansel
The Fireman	311	(17)
Rick Bass
Bike Ride with Older Boys	328	(2)
Laura Kasischke
Self and Attributes	330	(2)
Susan Wheeler
The Thief of Tay Ninh	332	(10)
Kevin Bowen
Limen	342	(1)
Natasha Trethewey
Labor	343	(15)
Madison Smartt Bell
Splinter	358	(2)
Jeff Dolven
Bit-O-Honey	360	(11)
Bernard Cooper
The Story of the Door	371	(4)
David Huddle
By a Swimming Pool Outside Syracusa	375	(2)
Billy Collins
Death as a Fictitious Event	377	(10)
Bert O. States
Going	387	(1)
Daniel Hoffman
Part of the Story	388	(16)
Stephen Dobyns
Pain Thinks of the Beautiful Table	404	(1)
Laurie Lamon
The Price of Eggs in China	405	(23)
Don Lee
Memoir	428	(1)
Louise Gluck
Seven Types of Ambiguity	429	(12)
Dan Chaon
I am Mrs. Lorca	441	(2)
Rafael Campo
Beethoven, Monet, Technology and US	443	(9)
Burton Raffel
Yellow Fever	452	(2)
Barbara Hamby
Grafting	454	(11)
Mariko Nagai
Recitation	465	(2)
Scott Cairns
A Little Learning	467	(15)
Sharon Dilworth
Archaeology	482	(2)
Margaret Gibson
Blood Sport	484	(11)
Thomas Lynch
In Praise of Coldness	495	(2)
Jane Hirshfield
Things not Seen in a Rear-View Mirror	497	(8)
Debra Marquart
The Palace at 4:00 A.M.	505	(2)
Debora Greger
Miles	507	(16)
Richard Burgin
Inheritance	523	(7)
Kwame Dawes
The Names	530	(5)
Carole Maso
Her Garden	535	(1)
Donald Hall
Funktionslust	536	(12)
Melissa Pritchard
To the Tune of a Small, Repeatable, and Passing Kindness	548	(2)
Carl Phillips
The Moor	550	(7)
Russell Banks
The Children of this Land	557	(2)
Wole Soyinka
Fugue	559	(4)
Elizabeth Alexander
Special Mention	563	(4)
Presses Featured in the Pushcart Prize Since 1976	567	(6)
Contributing Small Presses	573	(10)
Contributors' Notes	583	(6)
Index	589