TY - BOOK AU - Henderson,Bill ED - Pushcart Press TI - Pushcart prize 2005, XXIX: best of the small presses SN - 188888939X AV - PS501 .P87 2005 PY - 2005/// CY - Wainscott, N.Y., New York, N.Y. : PB - Pushcart Press, Distributed by W.W. Norton KW - American literature KW - 21st century KW - Small presses KW - United States N1 - Includes an index to works featured in the Pushcart Prize editions 1976 - 2005; "An annual small press reader."; Introduction / Bill Henderson -- Immortality / Yiyun Li -- Beetle orgy / Benjamin Scott Grossberg -- Noikokyrio / Alison Cadbury -- Brother death, sister life / Donald Platt -- Fast Sunday / Sue Standing -- Wonder: red beans and ricely / Sydney Lea -- Dues / Dale Peck -- Waiting for the Messiah / Chana Bloch -- Dog song / Ann Pancake -- Someone naked and adorable / David Kirby -- Raging waters / Brenda Miller -- Quelquechose / Dana Levin -- I am not your mother / Alice Mattison -- Chair / Donna Mattison -- Physics and grief / Patricia Monaghan -- Landscape with hungry gulls / Lance Larsen -- The Irish martyr / Russell Working -- Scattering my mother's ashes on the family plot at Hickman, Kentucky / Doug Anderson -- The hurt man / Wendell Berry -- My brother, Antonio, the baker / Philip Levine -- The speed of memory / Brad K. Younkin -- Horseflies / Robert Wrigley -- The core / Jack Herlihy -- God's penis / Jeffrey Harrison -- Death in Naples / Mary Gordon -- from The face / David St. John -- Bullet in my neck / Gerald Stern -- When Dean Young talks about wine / Tony Hoagland -- God lives in St. Petersburg / Tom Bissell -- Untitled / Catherine Barnett -- The real Eleanor Rigby / Alice Fulton -- Ectoplimaniessence / Hayden Carruth -- Fantastic voyage / Emily Fox Gordon -- Anyways / Suzanne Cleary - - Claire / Steven Barthelme -- Tour daufuskie / Terrance Hayes -- The poison that purifies you / Elizabeth Kadetsky -- Elegy for the saint of letting small fish go / Eliot Khalil Wilson -- Shunned / Meredith Hall -- Walking after dinner / Patricia Staton -- Gina's death / Charles Baxter -- To tell the literal truth / Steven Kowit -- The apology / Brock Clarke -- Can't you hear the wind howl? / Frank X. Gaspar -- The squeeze / Barbara Hurd -- There / Eamon Grennan -- Virtuoso mio / Karen Palmer -- Chinese foot chart / Kay Ryan -- Geographers at Mardi Gras / Andrei Codrescu -- The flayed man / Nadine Meyer -- Juan the cell phone salesman / Deb Olin Unferth -- To the surgeon Kevin Lin / W.S. Merwin -- Avian nights / Sherman Alexie -- Roman erotic poetry / Albert Goldbarth -- Triptych / Dick Allen -- Lost victories / William T. Vollmann -- Hedonism / David Baker -- Reading in his wake / Pamela Painter -- The Greek ships / Robert Bly - - from Urban renewal / Major Jackson N2 - A yearly anthology of fiction, essays and poetry from the small presses chosen by writers ER -