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The Pushcart prize 1997 ; XXI : best of the small presses [with an index to the series] / edited by Bill Henderson, with the Pushcart Prize editors ; poetry editors: William Matthews, Patricia Strachan.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Wainscott, N.Y. : Pushcart Press, 1997.Description: 625 p. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0916366960
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PS501 .P87 1997
Contents:
Proper gypsies / Bobbie Ann Mason -- Love in the morning / Andre Dubus -- Cry / J. Allyn Rosser -- Crib / Kay Ryan -- Slaughterhouse / Karen Halvorsen Schreck -- Duke and Ellis / David Treuer -- First sex / Richard Tayson -- Bruce Springsteen and the story of us / Hope Edelman -- One story / Dean Young -- Daily affirmations / Erin McGraw -- Japan / Billy Collins -- Dark age: why Johnny can't dissent / Tom Frank -- Two girls / Suzanne Gardinier -- Venexia I / Charles Wright -- Man-to-be / Ha Jin -- What comes from the ground / Wendy Dutton -- Scorn / Carol Frost -- Last white man in Brooklyn / Michael Stephens -- Facing into it / Eleanor Wilner -- Take it or leave it / Robert Dana -- Fanatics / Alan Shapiro -- Basic algebra / Richard Jackson -- Camo, dope & videotape / Harold Jaffe -- From Basra to Bethlehem / Tom Paine -- Big Ruthie imagines sex without pain / S.L. Wisenberg -- Descending / Dave Smith -- Crabcake / James Alan McPherson -- Rented house in the country / James Reiss -- Uttar Pradesh / August Kleinzahler -- Neanderthal tongues / Ranbir Sidhu -- Jerry's kid / Robert Schirmer -- Happiness: a manifesto / Marilyn Chin -- Time and space / Ira Sadoff -- Secret nature of the mechanical rabbit / Pinckney Benedict -- Revisionist / Helen Schulman -- Lost / Peter Gordon -- Spring snow / Arthur Sze -- Cows, arrogance, the natures of things / Trudy Dittmar -- Floor study / Martha Collins -- Grievances and griefs by Robert Frost / Daniel Stern -- Young man on Sixth Avenue / Mark Halliday -- Winter in Los Angeles / Tom McNeal -- Fetish / Loretta Collins -- Catskills remembered / Vivian Gornick -- Stone flight / Eamon Grennan -- Slip / Rachel Hadas -- Weather in history / Daniel Meltzer -- Relation of various accidents observable in some animals included in vacuo / William Monahan -- Christmas tree / James Merrill -- Looking in a deeper lair: a tribute to Wallace Stegner / Barry Lopez -- Aliens / Kim Addonizio -- Mercy / Sharon Solwitz -- Dissolution of the world / Caroline A. Langston -- Brown dog angel / Andrea Jeyaveeran -- Wood near Athens / Thom Gunn -- Disorder and early sorrow / George Packer -- Button box / Grace Schulman -- Shortest night / W.S. Merwin -- Mad / Jewell Mogan -- Tale of a kite / Steve Stern -- Baby maker / Karla J. Kuban -- Bridge / Daniel Orozco -- News / Ruth Stone -- Note folded thirteen ways / Richard Garcia -- Love songs for the SS / Michael Kaniecki -- Dog was crying to-night in Wicklow also / Seamus Heaney -- One moment on top of the earth / Naomi Shihab Nye -- Ghost of soul-making / Michael S. Harper -- Below Fourteenth Street / Gerald Stern.

"An annual small press reader."

Proper gypsies / Bobbie Ann Mason -- Love in the morning / Andre Dubus -- Cry / J. Allyn Rosser -- Crib / Kay Ryan -- Slaughterhouse / Karen Halvorsen Schreck -- Duke and Ellis / David Treuer -- First sex / Richard Tayson -- Bruce Springsteen and the story of us / Hope Edelman -- One story / Dean Young -- Daily affirmations / Erin McGraw -- Japan / Billy Collins -- Dark age: why Johnny can't dissent / Tom Frank -- Two girls / Suzanne Gardinier -- Venexia I / Charles Wright -- Man-to-be / Ha Jin -- What comes from the ground / Wendy Dutton -- Scorn / Carol Frost -- Last white man in Brooklyn / Michael Stephens -- Facing into it / Eleanor Wilner -- Take it or leave it / Robert Dana -- Fanatics / Alan Shapiro -- Basic algebra / Richard Jackson -- Camo, dope & videotape / Harold Jaffe -- From Basra to Bethlehem / Tom Paine -- Big Ruthie imagines sex without pain / S.L. Wisenberg -- Descending / Dave Smith -- Crabcake / James Alan McPherson -- Rented house in the country / James Reiss -- Uttar Pradesh / August Kleinzahler -- Neanderthal tongues / Ranbir Sidhu -- Jerry's kid / Robert Schirmer -- Happiness: a manifesto / Marilyn Chin -- Time and space / Ira Sadoff -- Secret nature of the mechanical rabbit / Pinckney Benedict -- Revisionist / Helen Schulman -- Lost / Peter Gordon -- Spring snow / Arthur Sze -- Cows, arrogance, the natures of things / Trudy Dittmar -- Floor study / Martha Collins -- Grievances and griefs by Robert Frost / Daniel Stern -- Young man on Sixth Avenue / Mark Halliday -- Winter in Los Angeles / Tom McNeal -- Fetish / Loretta Collins -- Catskills remembered / Vivian Gornick -- Stone flight / Eamon Grennan -- Slip / Rachel Hadas -- Weather in history / Daniel Meltzer -- Relation of various accidents observable in some animals included in vacuo / William Monahan -- Christmas tree / James Merrill -- Looking in a deeper lair: a tribute to Wallace Stegner / Barry Lopez -- Aliens / Kim Addonizio -- Mercy / Sharon Solwitz -- Dissolution of the world / Caroline A. Langston -- Brown dog angel / Andrea Jeyaveeran -- Wood near Athens / Thom Gunn -- Disorder and early sorrow / George Packer -- Button box / Grace Schulman -- Shortest night / W.S. Merwin -- Mad / Jewell Mogan -- Tale of a kite / Steve Stern -- Baby maker / Karla J. Kuban -- Bridge / Daniel Orozco -- News / Ruth Stone -- Note folded thirteen ways / Richard Garcia -- Love songs for the SS / Michael Kaniecki -- Dog was crying to-night in Wicklow also / Seamus Heaney -- One moment on top of the earth / Naomi Shihab Nye -- Ghost of soul-making / Michael S. Harper -- Below Fourteenth Street / Gerald Stern.

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