Authors: Bill Henderson, Pushcart Prize Editors
ISBN-13: 9781888889352, ISBN-10: 1888889357
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Pushcart Press, The
Date Published: January 2003
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Bill Henderson is the founder and editor of the Pushcart Prize. He received the 2006 National Book Critic Circle’s Lifetime Achievement Award and the Poets & Writers / Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award. The founder of the Lead Pencil Club, Henderson lives in Wainscott, New York.
The most honored literary series in America, The Pushcart Prize has been named a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times and hailed with Pushcart Press as "among the most influential in the development of the American book business" by Publishers Weekly "The ex-officio house organ for the American literary cosmos."—Chicago Tribune
Indispensable for anyone with an interest in what is really going on in contemporary American writing.
Introduction | 9 | |
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned | 23 | |
The Limit | 39 | |
The Lace Maker | 51 | |
Scordatura | 53 | |
How to Meditate | 69 | |
The Sensual World | 78 | |
Lunch at the Blacksmith | 80 | |
To be Honest | 99 | |
The Past | 109 | |
The Mandelbrot Set | 111 | |
Camp Cedar Crest | 125 | |
From the Psalter | 133 | |
Casualidades | 134 | |
Solatium | 142 | |
The Church of Omnivorous Light | 152 | |
House of Stone and Song | 154 | |
The Pass | 159 | |
Line | 170 | |
The Beauties of Nature | 191 | |
Ode to the Air Traffic Controller | 193 | |
The Lives of Strangers | 195 | |
Traveling with Mother | 215 | |
Prayer Against the Experts and Their Ways | 223 | |
The Part of the Bee's Body Embedded in the Flesh | 226 | |
I Demand to Know Where You're Taking Me | 227 | |
Ginkgo Tree | 249 | |
The Master of Delft | 251 | |
Cock Robin | 274 | |
Amazing Grace | 275 | |
Heat Waves in Winter Distance | 293 | |
The Road to Rome, and Back Again | 294 | |
The Least You Need to Know About Radio | 300 | |
Cord | 305 | |
On the Nature of Human Romantic Interaction | 308 | |
Night Train | 325 | |
Fields of Mercy | 327 | |
The Woman Who Hated Valentine's Day | 337 | |
The Worst Degree of Unforgivable | 338 | |
The Hickeys on Sally Palermo's Neck: Some Thoughts on Beauty and the Creative Life | 348 | |
Two Variations on a Theme by Stevens | 360 | |
Pilgrims | 362 | |
Red Berries | 378 | |
Where the Dog is Buried | 380 | |
Book | 405 | |
Candace Counts Coup | 407 | |
(My Lot to Spin the Purple: That the Tabernacle Should be Made) | 418 | |
Sister Carrie at 101 | 421 | |
He Writes to the Soul | 439 | |
Dangerous Discoveries | 441 | |
In the Cafe | 447 | |
Yangban | 448 | |
From The Lightning Field | 463 | |
Jinx | 467 | |
Autumn in the Yard We Planted | 470 | |
The Instructor | 471 | |
Cloud Atlas | 501 | |
Landscape with Bees | 505 | |
Cabeza | 509 | |
For a Chinese Poet Writing Through the Night Up on the Edge of Mt. Pollux | 521 | |
Autochthonic Song | 522 | |
Sonnet | 525 | |
Heron | 526 | |
Off Island | 528 | |
Killing Salmon | 538 | |
A Working Boy's Whitman | 540 | |
The Weight | 562 | |
Special Mention | 579 | |
Presses Featured in the Pushcart Prize Editions Since 1976 | 583 | |
Contributing Small Presses | 589 | |
Contributors' Notes | 598 | |
Index | 601 |