The 1998 Pushcart prize XXII : best of the small presses

Henderson, Bill, 1941- (Added Author).

Item details

ISBN: 1888889012
ISBN: 9781888889017
ISBN: 1888889071
ISBN: 9781888889079
Physical Description: print
658 pages ; 25 cm.
Publisher: Wainscott, N.Y. : Pushcart Press, ©1997.

Contents / Notes

General Note:

"An annual small press reader."

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction / Bill Henderson -- Courting a monk / Katherine Min -- Demonology / Rick Moody -- Elegy ending in the sound of a skipping rope / Larry Lewis -- The beauty treatment / Stacey Richter -- Ode to meaning / Robert Pinsky -- Grounded / Claire Davis -- The balloon / Mary Ruefle -- Preacher / Steve Yarbrough -- Stonehenge / Albert Goldbarth -- Women dreaming of Jerusalem / Rachel Kadish -- Atomic bride / Thomas Sayers Ellis -- Give the millionaire a drink / Mike Newirth -- What the water knows / Sam Hamill -- Jessica, the hound & the casket trade / Thomas Lynch -- Living with stripes / Kay Ryan -- Oxygen / Ron Carlson -- Blacklegs / Brigit Kelly -- Not the plaster casters / Janice Eidus -- What the animals teach us / Chard de Niord -- New York days, 1958-1964 / Charles Simic -- Karma Lollipop / Albert Saijo -- Out of the woods / Josip Novakovich -- Missing it / Dan Brown -- The twelve plagues / Gerald Shapiro -- Matinée idylls / Molly Bendall -- We have time / Paul L. Allman -- Door / Dana Levin -- Knowing your place / Sylvia Watanabe -- Executive suite / Michael Heffernan -- Carp / Jessica Roeder -- No turn on red / Richard Jackson -- The kiss / Pamela Painter -- Troubadour / David St. John -- For the relief of unbearable urges / Nathan Englander -- Davy Cricket / David Hayward -- Umbilicus / James Alan McPherson -- That half is almost gone / Marilyn Chin -- The forest / Andrea Barrett -- Fragments from the burnt notebooks of O. Fleming / Frank Polite -- Civilization / Tomʹas Filer -- Oysters and other workers / Turner Cassity -- The wings / Kristin King -- For the young men who died of AIDS / Julia Vinograd -- Rhyming action / Charles Baxter -- The lipstick tree / Kiana Davenport -- Souls / Dannie Abse -- Dentaphilia / Julia Slavin -- L.A. dream #2 / Maureen Seaton -- Native daughter / Lee Smith -- Breathing lessons / Rane Arroyo -- Two accidents : reflections on chance and creativity / Lewis Hyde -- On the failure named Bosnia / P.H. Liotta -- The famous torn and restored lit cigarette trick / Elizabeth Gilbert -- Invierno / Junot Diaz -- Sparrow / Reginald Gibbons -- Return of the Boyceville flash / Gordon Weaver -- Old Woodrat's sticky house / Gary Snyder -- Jamming traffic / Rita Ariyoshi -- Van Leeuwenhoek : 1675 / Linda Bierds -- The appropriation of cultures / Percival Everett -- Some information about 23 years of existence / Jeff Clark -- The secret names of whores / Donald Rawley -- Body parts (1968) / Bin Ramke -- Killer whales / Susan Daitch -- El Perifʹerico, or sleep / Joshua Clover -- Zenobia / Gina Berriault -- The man who wouldn't plant willow trees / A.E. Stallings -- At least thirteen ways of looking at look / Gordon Lish -- g The nude detective, a complaint / Dorothy Barresi -- Gooseberry marsh / Gretchen Legler -- Vous etes plus beaux que vous ne pensiez / Kenneth Koch -- Jaget / Anne Carson -- Scar Vegas / Tom Paine -- The coat / Flannery O'Connor -- Special mention -- Contributors' notes -- Presses featured in the Pushcart Prize since 1976 -- Contributing small presses -- Index.