| Portion of title |
Pushcart prize XLIV |
| Variant title |
Pushcart prize 44 |
| Portion of title |
Best of the small presses |
| Contents |
The arms of Saturday night / Cally Fiedorek -- Homeschool / Meghan O'Gieblyn -- Roll under the waves / Juan Felipe Herrera -- The human soup / Maureen Stanton -- Arson / Charles Simic -- The history of sound / Ben Shattuck -- Erl king / Julia Elliott -- A fable / Graham Barnhart -- Fat swim / Emma Copley Eisenberg -- Old school / Allen Gee -- An endless story / Louise Glück -- Hi ho cherry-o / Becky Hagenston -- The almadraba / Maia Jenkins -- Say it with your whole black mouth / Danez Smith -- "General: unskilled" / Ryan Eric Dull -- Monticello house tour / Kiki Petrosino -- The peaches of August / Toi Derricotte -- The entertainer / Whitney Collins -- Reza's restaurant. Chicago 1997 / Kaveh Akbar -- Say this / Lucia Perillo -- Monsters / Margaret Wardlaw -- Stethoscope / Tom Sleigh -- Scandalous women in history / Malerie Willens -- That's the job / Edward Hirsch -- The last voyage of the Alice B. Toklas / Jason Brown -- How to mourn the dead / Nausheen Eusuf -- Braindrain / C Pam Zhang -- The ugly American / Shara Lessley -- Walking in fast-falling dusk what is between us besides / Mary Szybist -- Stories that fit my hands / Rebecca McClanahan -- Rewinding an overdose on a projector / Sean Shearer -- Festival / Mary Miller -- Human traffic / Bruce Cohen -- Hao / Ye Chun -- Versal / Francine J. Harris -- The important transport / Diane Williams -- Footprints in the order of disappearance / Fady Joudah -- The cure for racism is cancer / Tony Hoagland -- Dearest water / Nancy Takacs -- Pattycakes / Claire Davis -- Mud Matrix / Hoa Nguyen -- The effect of heat on poor people / Farah Ali -- Is all writing environmental writing? / Camile T. Dungy -- Four short essays personifying a future in which white supremacy has ended / Chen Chen -- New bees / Claire Luchette -- American landscaping, Philadelphia to Mount Vernon / Roger Reeves -- Bad northern women / Erin Singer -- The white orchard / Arthur Sze -- Double vi station / Jeffery Harrison -- I confess: my cultural misappropriation / Allan Gurganus -- Skin-light / Natalie Diaz -- Flour / Joy Williams -- An open letter to white women concerning 'The handmaid's tale' and America's cultural amnesia / Tiffany Midge -- Wild pansy / Lisa Bellamy -- Stay there / Leslie Pietrzyk -- Five and a possible / Alison C. Rollins -- Bon voyage, Charlie / Dan Pope -- Jailbait / Ottessa Moshfegh -- Falling /Ron Sottlemyer -- Chinko / Samantha Libby -- Draft/Mouth / Peter LaBerge -- Citizenship / Javier Zamora -- A deliberate thing I once said to my skin / Megan Baxter -- In that time / Richard Bausch -- In the studio at the end of day / Catherine Barnett -- Eulogy / Patricia Foster -- Dante on broadway / Hal Crowther -- Infidels / Joanna Scott -- If you find a mouse on a glue trap / Suzanne Farrell Smith -- Young hare / Diane Seuss -- Petronia Petronia Jyekundensis / Jan Verberkmoes -- Oasis / Deborah Forbes -- Special mention -- Presses featured in the Pushcart Prize editions since 1976 -- The Pushcart Prize fellowships -- Contributing small presses for Pushcart Prize XLIV -- Contributors' notes -- Index -- Afterword / Ray Carver. |
| Abstract |
"As Booklist's Donna Seaman commented on edition #43, "a harvesting of the year's finest stories, poems and essays ... a deeply provocative and artistically resplendent anthology." This current edition is further proof that important and exciting writing is found in small presses scattered around the country and the world. As the variety of selections in Pushcart Prize XLIV indicates, it is an eclectic and constantly changing community. Over 70 authors are included from more than 50 presses. The Pushcart series is winner of The Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award from The National Book Critics Circle, and the Poets & Writers/Barnes & Nobel Writers For Writers citation, plus many other awards. Here are 600 pages of literary brilliance from both new and established authors, featuring traditional and experimental work."-- Provided by publisher |
| General note | Includes index. |
| Genre/form | short stories. |
| Genre/form | poetry. |
| Genre/form | Poetry. |
| Genre/form | Fiction. |
| Genre/form | Short stories. |
| Genre/form | Short stories. |
| Genre/form | Fiction. |
| Genre/form | Poetry. |
| Genre/form | Nouvelles. |
| Genre/form | Romans. |
| Genre/form | Poésie. |
| ISBN | 9781888889956 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 1888889950 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 9781888889963 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 1888889969 (paperback) |
