The 1998 Pushcart prize XXII : : best of the small presses / [electronic resource] Pushcart Prize XXII Pushcart Prize 1998 / edited by Bill Henderson with the Pushcart Prize editors.. — Wainscott, N.Y. : : Pushcart Press,, c1997.. — 658 p. ; 25 cm. - An Annual Small Reader.
"An annual small press reader."
: Introduction / : Courting a monk / : Demonology / : Elegy ending in the sound of a skipping rope / : The beauty treatment / : Ode to meaning / : Grounded / : The balloon / : Preacher / : Stonehenge / : Women dreaming of Jerusalem / : Atomic bride / : Give the millionaire a drink / : What the water knows / : Jessica, the hound & the casket trade / : Living with stripes / : Oxygen / : Blacklegs / : Not the plaster casters / : What the animals teach us / : New York days, 1958-1964 / : Karma Lollipop / : Out of the woods / : Missing it / : The twelve plagues / : Matinée idylls / : We have time / : Door / : Knowing your place / : Executive suite / : Carp / : No turn on red / : The kiss / : Troubadour / : For the relief of unbearable urges / : Davy Cricket / : Umbilicus / : That half is almost gone / : The forest / : Fragments from the burnt notebooks of O. Fleming / : Civilization / : Oysters and other workers / : The wings / : For the young men who died of AIDS / : Rhyming action / : The lipstick tree / : Souls / : Dentaphilia / : L.A. dream #2 / : Native daughter / : Breathing lessons / : Two accidents : reflections on chance and creativity / : On the failure named Bosnia / : The famous torn and restored lit cigarette trick / : Invierno / : Sparrow / : Return of the Boyceville flash / : Old Woodrat's sticky house / : Jamming traffic / : Van Leeuwenhoek : 1675 / : The appropriation of cultures / : Some information about 23 years of existence / : The secret names of whores / : Body parts (1968) / : Killer whales / : El Periferico, or sleep / : Zenobia / : The man who wouldn't plant willow trees / : At least thirteen ways of looking at look / : g : The nude detective, a complaint / : Gooseberry marsh / : Vous etes plus beaux que vous ne pensiez / : Jaget / : Scar Vegas / : The coat / : Special mention -- : Contributors' notes -- : Presses featured in the Pushcart Prize since 1976 -- : Contributing small presses -- : Index. Bill Henderson -- Katherine Min -- Rick Moody -- Larry Lewis -- Stacey Richter -- Robert Pinsky -- Claire Davis -- Mary Ruefle -- Steve Yarbrough -- Albert Goldbarth -- Rachel Kadish -- Thomas Sayers Ellis -- Mike Newirth -- Sam Hamill -- Thomas Lynch -- Kay Ryan -- Ron Carlson -- Brigit Kelly -- Janice Eidus -- Chard de Niord -- Charles Simic -- Albert Saijo -- Josip Novakovich -- Dan Brown -- Gerald Shapiro -- Molly Bendall -- Paul L. Allman -- Dana Levin -- Sylvia Watanabe -- Michael Heffernan -- Jessica Roeder -- Richard Jackson -- Pamela Painter -- David St. John -- Nathan Englander -- David Hayward -- James Alan McPherson -- Marilyn Chin -- Andrea Barrett -- Frank Polite -- Tomas Filer -- Turner Cassity -- Kristin King -- Julia Vinograd -- Charles Baxter -- Kiana Davenport -- Dannie Abse -- Julia Slavin -- Maureen Seaton -- Lee Smith -- Rane Arroyo -- Lewis Hyde -- P.H. Liotta -- Elizabeth Gilbert -- Junot Diaz -- Reginald Gibbons -- Gordon Weaver -- Gary Snyder -- Rita Ariyoshi -- Linda Bierds -- Percival Everett -- Jeff Clark -- Donald Rawley -- Bin Ramke -- Susan Daitch -- Joshua Clover -- Gina Berriault -- A.E. Stallings -- Gordon Lish -- Dorothy Barresi -- Gretchen Legler -- Kenneth Koch -- Anne Carson -- Tom Paine -- Flannery O'Connor --