"'Resounding testimony to the persistence of intelligent, creative, and compassionate expression' commented Booklist on last year's Pushcart Prize. 'A wonderful edition' said Publishers Weekly. Features appeared in The New York Times Book Review and elsewhere. Pushcart's 41st Edition is edited with the assistance of 200 distinguished Contributing Editors and was selected from more than 8,000 stories, essays, and poetry nominated by a complete roster of today's outstanding non-commercial publishers. The Pushcart Prize has been honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award from The National Book Critics Circle, the Writers for Writers Award from Poets & Writers/Barnes & Noble and is acclaimed by readers and reviewers internationally"--Amazon.com.
Item details
ISBN:9781888889826
ISBN:1888889829
ISBN:9781888889819
ISBN:1888889810
Physical Description:print 640 pages ; 24 cm
Publisher:Wainscott, New York : Pushcart Prize Fellowships, [2017]
Distributor:New York, N.Y. :W.W. Norton & Co.,[2017]
Contents / Notes
General Note:
"0149-7863."
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and author index.
Formatted Contents Note:
The story of a true artist / Dominica Phetteplace -- I sing you for an apple / Eric Wilson -- Elk / Robert Wrigley -- The G.R.I.E.F. / Micah Stack -- Anna May Wong blows out sixteen candles / Sally Wen Mao -- The hornet among us / Paul Crenshaw -- The spring forecast / Shelley Wong -- Avarice / Charles Baxter -- Scream (or never minding) / Lia Purpura -- Still when I picture it the face of God is a white man's face / Shane McCrae -- The George Spelvin Players / Rebecca Makkai -- The revolt of the turtles / Stephen Dunn -- If you can't say anything nice write a one-star review / Jane Lancellotti -- Basement delivery / Emily Skillings -- Naming happiness / Monte Reel -- The antique blacks / Adrian Matejka -- Taxidermy / Vladislava Kolosova -- The beating heart of the wristwatch / Martin Espada -- Winter wheat / Doug Crandell -- Consider Oedipus' father / David Tomas Martinez -- The mushroom queen / Liz Ziemska -- Cocaine / Alex Dimitrov -- Beets / Cate Hennessey -- The tallgrass shuffles / Sea Sharp -- The Devil's Triangle / Emma Duffy-Comparone -- The brain is not the United States / Elizabeth Scanlon -- New technologies of reading / Angela Woodward -- From Please bury me in this / Allison Benis White -- The five-pound burrito / T.C. Boyle -- Daddy dozens / Jamila Woods -- Dr. J / Kalpana Narayanan -- Pluto's Gate : Mississippi / James Kimbrell -- Forty-two / Lisa Taddeo -- We would never sleep / David Hernandez -- Priest / Erin McGraw -- Walk / Jane Springer -- Voltaire night / Deb Olin Unferth -- More than this / David Kirby -- Narrator / Elizabeth Tallent -- 100 bells / Tarfia Faizullah -- Trash food / Chris Offutt -- From Thank you terror / Mathias Svalina -- The line agent Pascal / Daniel Mason -- The Luoyang poem / Ye Chun -- The physics of turtles / Jenny Hendrix -- Etta James at the Audubon Ballroom / Patricia Spears Jones -- A local's guide to dating in Slocomb County / Chris Drangle -- Spiritual evaluation / Taije Silverman -- Finders keepers / Jenn Shapland -- Hurricane song / Cecily Parks -- Things I know to be true / Kendra Fortmeyer -- Forgotten sound / Melissa Broder -- After reading Peter Bichsel / Lydia Davis -- Idyll / Richie Hofmann -- Fail again / David J. Unger -- I dream of horses eating cops / Joshua Jennifer Espinoza -- Midterm / Leslie Johnson -- The raptor / Charles Holdefer -- Resting place / Kate Levin -- The invitation / Barry Lopez -- Hospice / Jean Valentine -- Mistress Mickle all at sea / Elizabeth McCracken -- Laika / Sara Batkie -- The Carnation Milk Palace / Melissa Pritchard -- Cross your fingers God bless / Ron Currie Jr. -- The tradition / Jericho Brown -- Blue of the world / Douglas W. Milliken -- Dritter Klasse ohne Fensterscheiben / Steve Almond -- Cleaning the ghost room / Tatiana Forero Puerta -- Safe home / Daniel Peña -- Bloodlines / Lauren Slater.