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Title:

2012 Pushcart Prize XXXVI : best of the small presses / edited by Bill Henderson ; with the Pushcart Prize editors.

Publisher:

Pushcart Press ;

Copyright Date:

c2012

Description:

569 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

American literature--21st century.
American poetry--21st century.
Small presses--United States.
American literature--History and criticism.
American literature--Collections.
Short stories.

Other Authors:

Henderson, Bill, 1941-
Pushcart Press.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

The red carpet / Juan Villoro. Phantoms / Steven Milhauser -- Stations / Maria Hummel -- Mr. Lytle : an essay / John Jeremiah Sullivan -- Horse latitudes / Kathleen Flenniken -- That winter / Miha Mazzini -- Laugh / Stephen Dobyns -- Brief lives / Paul Zimmer -- Song / John Murillo -- Nephlim / L. Annette Binder -- Ode to late middle age / Richard Cecil -- Three bartlet pears / Alice Mattison -- Man on the dump / Donald Platt -- Cowboys / Susan Steinberg -- December, fever / Joy Katz -- Hosts / Susanne Antonetta -- Black people can't swim / Douglas Goetsch -- We don't deserve this / Sandra Leong -- Logophilia / B.H. Fairchild -- Tracing back / Alice Friman -- Rockaway / Lydia Conklin -- Mending wall / Janice N. Harrington -- Soldier of fortune / Bret Anthony Johnston -- Orphanage / Elaine Terranova -- Our daily toast / Brenda Miller -- Roll out the fool / William Trowbridge -- Final concert / Eve Becker -- After 11 a.m. bombardment / Ilya Kaminsky -- How to fall in love properly / Julian Gough -- Watching my mother take her last breath / Leon Stokesbury -- The lobster mafia story / Anna Solomon -- A Tibetan man in Hawley, Massachusetts / Pamela Stewart -- From House of prayer no. 2 / Mark Richard -- I'm only sleeping / John Rybicki -- Number stations / Smith Henderson -- Casals / Gerald Stern -- Mishti Kukur / Deborah Thompson -- Patronized / Tara Hart -- The ballad of Mushie Momzer / Steve Stern -- My sky diary / Claire Bateman -- The MFA/Creative writing system is a closed, undemocratic, medieval guild system that represses good writing / Anis Shivani -- Spell against gods / Patrick Phillips -- Glad to be human / Irene O'Garden -- The veranda / Frederic Tuten -- Theory of lipstick / Karla Huston -- Five / Lydia Davis -- Ocean state job lot / Stephen Burt -- Practice journey / Albert Goldbarth -- Grace notes / Nancy Mitchell -- Father Olufemi / Tim O'Sullivan -- Meditation after an excellent dinner / Mark Halliday -- Never come back / Elizabeth Tallent -- Family math / Alan Michael Parker -- Dark horse / Lisa Couturier -- Murder ballad / Jane Springer -- That story / Jack Driscoll -- Russians / David Rigsbee -- Girls, at play / Celeste Ng -- Silhouettes / Sarah Busse -- Sean / Robert Anthony Siegel -- The telephone / Kathleen Graber -- Janjaweed wife / E.C. Osondu -- The B's / Steve Myers -- Satan sun / Raymond Andrews -- Little wet monster / Chad Sweeney -- Never give an inch / Gerald Howard -- Certainty / Judith Kitchen -- The red carpet / Juan Villoro.

Summary:

A collection of short stories, essays, and poems, culled from small presses and literary journals.

ISBN:

1888889632 (pbk.)
9781888889635 (pbk.)
1888889640
9781888889642

OCLC:

(OCoLC)711051842

Locations:

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)