The Pushcart prize, VIII : best of the small presses : --with an index to the first eight volumes : an annual small press reader

Author(s)

• Henderson, Bill
• Godwin, Gail

Bibliographic Information

The Pushcart prize, VIII : best of the small presses : --with an index to the first eight volumes : an annual small press reader

edited by Bill Henderson with the Pushcart Prize editors ; introduction by Gail Godwin

Pushcart Press, c1983

1983-84 ed

Other Title

Pushcart prize 8

Pushcart prize eight

Contents of Works

• Introduction / Gail Godwin
• A small, good thing / Raymond Carver
• The end of the world / Thomas McGrath
• The company we keep : self-making in imaginative art, old and new / Wayne C. Booth
• Each bird walking / Tess Gallagher
• The decimation before Phraata / Alan Dugan
• Prayer for the dying / Willis Johnson
• Those destroyed by success / William Dickey
• Moles / Mary Oliver
• Memories of unhousement, a memoir / Clark Blaise
• How to write a poem / Gordon Lish
• Persimmons / Li-Young Lee
• Confederate graves in Little Rock / Richard Hugo
• Quarrel / Ellen Bryant Voight
• Graveyard day / Bobbie Ann Mason
• The dishwasher / Robert McBrearty
• The pond at dusk / Jane Kenyon
• Sitting between two mirrors / James Baker Hall
• from A sequence on Sidney Lanier / Andrew Hudgins
• Summer, an elegy / Ellen Gilchrist
• Notes on failure / Joyce Carol Oates
• Sonnet / Stanley Plumly
• Marcus Garvey arrested at the 125th Street station / John Allman
• The weaver / Ann Stanford
• Samba de los agentes / Andrei Codrescu
• Crane and Carlsen : a memoir (1926-1934) / Lincoln Kirstein
• Carolyn at twenty / Patricia Dobler
• The house that fear built : Warsaw, 1943 / Jane Flanders
• Hidden justice / Gerald Stern
• Judgment / Kate Wheeler
• What literature means / Cynthia Ozick
• A valediction / W.D. Snodgrass
• I knew I'd sing / Heather McHugh
• Remembering Titian's martyrdom of St. Lawrence / Jorie Graham
• Robo-wash / Jean Davidson
• The stench / Jillian Becker
• Procession / Philip Booth
• Lining up / Richard Howard
• The longing / John Daniel
• The time, the place, the loved one / Susan Welch
• Avant-garde mastery / Thomas LeClair
• Zoë / Diane Ackerman
• Hamlen Brook / Richard Wilbur
• The man of many L's / Maxine Kumin
• Uncle Balt and the nature of being / William Gass
• The reedbeds of the Hackensack / Amy Clampitt
• Dream vision / Raymond Oliver
• The desire and pursuit of the part / Henri Coulette
• Age / Janet Desaulniers
• Being and Judaism / Oscar Mandel
• That bright grey eye / Hilda Morely
• Great-aunt Francesca / Joe-Anne McLaughlin
• Indian boarding school : the runaways / Louise Erdrich
• The eight stages of translation / Robert Bly
• The woman who lives in the botanical gardens / Alexis De Veaux
• Sapphics against anger / Timothy Steele
• Tutka Bay, Alaska / Anita Wilkins
• Contributors' notes

• NCID: BA84134014
• ISBN:
  • 0916366189
• LCCN: 76058675
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Wainscott, N.Y.
• Pages/Volumes: 528 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : American literature -- 20th century
  • LCSH : Small presses -- United States