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The Pushcart prize, II : best of the small presses, 1977-1978 /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Henderson, Bill, 1941-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Yonkers, N.Y. : Pushcart Press, 1977
Edition:1977-78 ed.
Subjects:
American literature > 20th century.
American literature > History and criticism.
Littérature américaine > 20e siècle.
American literature.
1900-1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : about Pushcart Prize, II
  • The pension grillparzer / John Irving
  • The end of science fiction / Lisel Mueller
  • Cuylerville / Douglas Crase
  • Going after Cacciato / Tim O'Brien
  • Zimmer drunk and alone, dreaming of old football games / Paul Zimmer
  • Lives of the saints, part I / Jon Anderson
  • The Red Cross night / Victor Muravin
  • Though it looks like a throat it is not / Patricia Goedicke
  • We free singers be / Etheridge Knight
  • The big store / Alan V. Hewat
  • The best ride to New York / Bob Levin
  • Ode to senility / Phillip Lopate
  • Vestiges / Meredith Steinbach
  • The pure loneliness / Michael Ryan
  • Medicine bow / Richard Hugo
  • Laughter and patience / Octavio Paz
  • To my daughter / Kathryn Terrill
  • Where the winged horses take off into the wild blue yonder from / Kelly Cherry
  • Milk is good for you / Stephen Dixon
  • Rabbit trance / Jarold Ramsey
  • With the rest of my body / Christine Zawadiwsky
  • The family as a haven in a heartless world / Christopher Lasch
  • Mientras dure vida, sobra el tiempo / Carolyn Forché
  • Him and me / Susan MacDonald
  • King's day / T.E. Potter
  • The sage of Apple Valley on love / Edward Field
  • Jimmy Pasta / Henry Miller
  • Don't you ever see the butterflies / Ana Blandiana
  • All kinds of caresses / John Ashbery
  • The party / James Hashim
  • Arizona movies / Michael Van Walleghen
  • Vickie Loans-Arrow, Fort Yates, No. Dak. 1970 / Marnie Walsh
  • The lover / Eugene K. Garber
  • The neighborhood dog / Russell Edson
  • The U.S. Chinese immigrant's book on the art of sex / Opal Nations
  • Sweethearts / Jayne Anne Phillips
  • The name, the nose / Italo Calvino
  • Toussaint / Ntozake Shange
  • Living on the lower east side ... / Allen Planz
  • The deportation of Solzhenitsyn / Russian Samizdat underground
  • Another form of marriage / Maxine Kumin
  • Short stories / Howard Moss
  • Lovers / Jerry Bumpus
  • How it will be / Mary Lane
  • The sleep / Philip Dacey
  • The man who invented the automatic jumping bean / "El Huitlacoche"
  • from "The duplications" / Kenneth Koch
  • The tennis-game / Paul Goodman
  • They dais / Reg Saner
  • The monk's chimera / Teo Savory
  • The garment of sadness / Barbara Szerlip
  • The Buickspecial / Raymond Federman
  • The station / Miriam Levine
  • Song / James Schuyler
  • Lowghost or lowghost / Ross Feld
  • Olympian progress / Richard Kostelanetz
  • A woman walking / Philip Levine
  • The juggler / Siv Cedering Fox
  • The last romantic / Gerald Locklin
  • Barrett and Browning / Thomas Lux
  • Minute stories / Ian Macmillian, David Ohle and Steve Schutzman
  • The week the dirigible came / Jay Meek
  • Three day New York blues / Jayne Cortez
  • The fire at the catholic church / John Sanford
  • Return of the general / Jerry Stahl
  • The new consciousness, the NEA and poetry today / Felix Stefanile
  • A letter home / Adrianne Marcus
  • Crash / David Cope
  • Theodore Roethke / James Lewisohn
  • In Iowa / Cinda Kornblum
  • Preparing to sleep / Gregory Orr
  • Mending the adobe / Hayden Carruth
  • Contributors notes
  • Outstanding small presses.