Bibliograph

The Pushcart book of essays, the best essays from a quarter-century of The Pushcart Prize, Anthony Brandt [editor]

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Label

The Pushcart book of essays, the best essays from a quarter-century of The Pushcart Prize, Anthony Brandt [editor]

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

essays

Main title

The Pushcart book of essays

Oclc number

48756826

Responsibility statement

Anthony Brandt [editor]

Sub title

the best essays from a quarter-century of The Pushcart Prize

Summary

An anthology of essays that have appeared in the Pushcart Prize editions of writings from small presses, reflecting the social, literary, and political history of our time

Table Of Contents

The man who invented the automatic jumping bean / El Huitlacoche (Bilingual Review) -- Doing good / John Balaban (Hudson Review) -- Civilization and isolation / Vine Deloria (North American Review) -- Literature and lucre: a meditation / Leslie Fiedler (Genre) -- Memories of unhousement, a memoir / Clark Blaise (Salmaqundi) -- Notes on failure / Joyce Carol Oates (Hudson Review) -- Self, Landscape, Grid / Terrence Des Pres (New England Review and Broadleaf Quarterly) -- Poetry and ambition / Donald Hall (Kenyon Review) -- Not-knowing / Donald Barthelme (Georgia Review) -- Paper tigers / Eliot Weinberger (Sulfur) -- Against 'Joie de vivre' / Phillip Lopate (Ploughshares) -- Excellent things in women / Sara Suleri (Raritan) -- Redneck secrets / William Kittredge (Graywolf) -- Atlas of civilization / Seamus Heaney (Parnassus: Poetry in Review) -- A snapping turtle in June / Franklin Burroughs (Georgia Review) -- Anonymity / Susan Bergman (North American Review) -- Maintenance / Naomi Shihab Nye (Georgia Review) -- Mine own John Berryman / Philip Levine (Gettysburg Review) -- On dumpster diving / Lars Eighner (Threepenny Review) -- A day at the St. Regis with Dame Edith / Perdita Schaffner (American Scholar) -- Wallace Stevens / Robert Hass (Threepenny Review) -- Homage to the runner: bloody brain work / Marvin Bell (American Poetry Review) -- A thousand Buddhas / Brenda Miller (Georgia Review) -- Skunk dreams / Louise Erdrich (Georgia Review) -- Oyez a Beaumont / Vicki Hearne (Raritan) -- Sex / Irma Wallem (Zyzzyva) -- Jessica, the hound, and the casket trade / Thomas Lynch (Witness) -- New York Days, 1958-1964 / Charles Simic (Gettysburg Review) -- Two accidents: reflections on chance and creativity / Lewis Hyde (Kenyon Review) -- A Hemingway story / Andre Dubus (Kenyon Review) -- A murder of crows / Daniel Henry (Northern Lights) -- Borrowed finery / Paula Fox (Threepenny Review) -- Neon effects / Emily Hiestand (Southwest Review) -- Toward humility / Brett Lott (Fourth Genre) -- The canals of Mars / Gary Fincke (Shenandoah)

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