The Pushcart Prize XI: Best of the Small Presses...With an Index to the First Eleven Volumes : An Annual Small Press Reader/1986-87 [Hardcover]

Bill Henderson (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1986 | Series: Pushcart Prize

Created to preserve and promote important literature, The Pushcart Prize is a unique annual anthology of the finest poetry, fiction, and essays to a ppear in small presses during the year.

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Now in its 11th year, The Pushcart Prize has become an institution; readers look forward to its annual appearance as children do to Christmas. The work remains topnotch, thanks to both the contributors (almost 50 this time, many of them unknown) and the rotating editorial staff; Philip Levine and David Wojahn served as poetry editors this year. This rotation means that the work included is always as fresh as it is good; thus, a girl in a story by Amy Hempel gives her brother "a look you could iron clothes with with," and the dead father in Li-Young Lee's poem lies down "to sleep like a snow-covered road/ winding through pines older than him,/ without any travelers, and lonely for no one." These authors are not only our finest storytellers but the guardians of our language. David Kirby, English Dept., Florida State Univ., Tallahassee
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 1 pages
• Publisher: Pushcart Pr (August 1986)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0916366391
• ISBN-13: 978-0916366391
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.6 x 1.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Stories, Poems and Essays from Small Presses, April 29, 2009

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This review is from: The Pushcart Prize XI: Best of the Small Presses...With an Index to the First Eleven Volumes : An Annual Small Press Reader/1986-87 (Hardcover)

Included in Pushcart Prize XI, are stories, essays and poems from small presses. Most were very good to phenomenal. My favorites were the following:

Lawns by Mona Simpson - This is a short story about a college girl who steals while working in her school post office. As the story unfolds, we see how this is tragically related to her years of sexual abuse by her father.

Not-Knowing by Donald Barthelme - An essay on art, literature, and knowing.

My Legacy by Don Zacharia - This is a memoir of an old-time Jewish communist, poet and anarchist.

Writing in the Cold by Ted Solotaroff- An essay on writing and writers.

There are also excellent pieces by Francine Prose, Richard Burgin, Richard Ford and Alice Adams. I highly recommend this and all the issues in the Pushcart Press series.