Amazon.com: The Pushcart Prize XIX: Best of the Small Presses (1994 - 1995) (9780916366926): Bill Henderson, David St. John, Lynn Emanuel, Anthony Brandt: Books

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1994 | Series: Pushcart Prize

One of the premier annual anthologies of American literature, the nineteenth volume in the series offers more than sixty selections of the best poetry, essays, and short fiction published by hundreds of the nation's small publishing houses.

#outer_postBodyPS { display: none; } #psGradient { display: none; } #psPlaceHolder { display: none; } #psExpand { display: none; } One of the premier annual anthologies of American literature, the nineteenth volume in the series offers more than sixty selections of the best poetry, essays, and short fiction published by hundreds of the nation's small publishing houses.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

"It's not editors, but writers who read who make American literature." Lee Smith, a fiction reader for the annual Pushcart anthology series, may be right to say so: Pushcart's 19th anthology of fiction, essays and poetry, chosen mainly by writers from a year's worth of American small press publishing, is striking in its literary breadth and accomplishment. The Pushcart series has always found a balance between known writers and the undiscovered, and this volume favors the new, offering many rewards. Among them is the poetry, selected by David St. John and Lynn Emanuel, with strong contributions by Arthur Vogelsang, Carol Snow, Dian Blakely Shoaf, Rita Dove, Khaled Mattawa and others. Notable essays include Brenda Miller's powerfully lyrical "A Thousand Buddhas," about giving and receiving massage. The many outstanding stories range from Raymond Federman's murmurously punctuationless "The Line" to "Theng," a stoically realistic, eventually dramatic glimpse of Southeast Asian immigrant life by newcomer Susan Onthank Mates. There is so much to choose from here that readers may not want to choose at all-they can just read on and on and on.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal

It just keeps getting bigger and better. This, the 19th collection of prose, poetry, and fiction selected from small press publications by Pushcart Press, seems to emphasize more new writers than ever before. The result is an exciting anthology full of tremendous variety and wonderful writing-a volume that is a sheer pleasure to get lost in. The biggest surprise for this reader was the essays, especially Brenda Miller's piece on massage-which moves on, circuitously, to embrace so much more-and Edward Field's much-needed portrait of the enigmatic author Alfred Chester. And who could ever forget Edwidge Danicat's short story about Haiti, "Between the Pool and the Gardenias," as compelling as it is horrifying. But it hardly seems fair to pick favorites with a selection this rich. Considering the poor job that most of us do in collecting and promoting small press periodicals, this collection is more than just a recommended purchase. It's mandatory.
Brian Kenney, Brooklyn P.L.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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