The Pushcart Prize XXI: Best of the Small Presses 1997

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Overview

The most honored literary series in America

Winner of Publishers Weekly's Carey-Thomas Award, selected many times as an "Outstanding Book of the Year" by The New York Times Book Review, and chosen for two Book of the Month Club QPBC selections, the annual Pushcart Prize sets the standard of excellence for literary anthologies. Each year it presents the most distinguished short stories, essays and poetry first published by small presses and magazines nationwide and each year it is hailed as a touchstone of literary discovery. This year The Pushcart Prize surpasses its own reputation with an astonishing diversity of writers, some renowned and many others destined for fame. Selected from the pages of Ontario Review, Agni, Exquisite Corpse, Iowa Review, Threepenny Review, Black Sparrow Press, Witness, Georgia Review, Triquarterly, Bomb, Caribbean Writer and dozens more, The Pushcart Prize XIX picked witht the participation of over 180 outstanding contributing editors, brings together the finest writing in America today, and continues its tradition of introducing to a wider public the dazzling literary galaxy of the small press.

Over sixty selections of the best poetry, essays, and short fiction have been selected out of thousands of nominations from Pushcart staff contributing editors and hundreds of small presses. The result is an introduction to a literary world that few readers have access to--the world where much of today's significant writing is published.

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New York Times Book Review
The single best measure of the state of affairs in American literature today.
Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly
Czeslaw Milosz, Bobbie Ann Mason, Andre Dubus and Seamus Heaney are among the more prominent of the 60-plus writers represented in this generous and stimulatingly eclectic selection of fiction, poetry and essaysthe biggest anthology in the 21-year history of the Pushcart Press. Of particular note are probing essays about the link between faith and the writer's imagination (Dubus's "Love in the Morning"), a law professor's debilitation from a stroke (George Packer's "Disorder and Early Sorrow") and the dispiriting racial Balkanization of New York (Michael Stephens's "The Last White Man in Brooklyn"). Admirable, too, are Alan Shapiro's "Fanatics," in which the author describes his falling-out with a friend from childhood, an ardent convert to Hasidic Judaism, and Michael Kaniecki's mordant, unsettling essay on the impact the Holocaust hadand continues to haveon his Polish-American family ("Love Song for the SS"). Although the fiction is less wide-ranging, working mostly in the realist epiphanic mode, much of it is first-rate. Erin McGraw's "Daily Affirmations" plays out the bleak comedy of a self-help writer clashing with her parents at Thanksgiving. Helen Schulman's "The Revisionist" affectingly chronicles the mental unraveling of a Manhattan businessman. In Ranbir Sidhu's "Neanderthal Tongues," the corpse of an anthropologist meditates upon warring factions in Ethiopia and his distance from his own roots in India. The poetry is diverse, too; of particular note are the late James Merrill's "Christmas Tree," a delightful jeu d'esprit, and Loretta Collins's coolly observant "Fetish." Henderson's anthology is a welcome annual reminder of the vigor and breadth of the smaller presses. (Nov.)
Library Journal
When the first edition of this annual anthology was published in 1976, one prominent reviewer hailed it as "a big, colorful, cheerful, gratifying samplecase of 56 small-press works." That description still holds-only the numbers are bigger: This year's volume is the largest in Pushcart history, with 31 poems, 21 stories, and ten essays from some 44 of the nation's "noncommercial" journals. As with any collection this size, it's a mixed bag. But nowhere else are readers afforded the opportunity both to sample the wares of well-known contemporary American writers (Bobbie Ann Mason, Andre Dubus, Barry Lopez, W.S. Merwin, Seamus Heaney, and James Merrill) while making the acquaintance of so many new ones worth knowing. A "gratifying samplecase," indeed, and one that belongs on the shelves of every library. Highly recommended.-David Sowd, formerly with Stark Cty. Dist. Lib., Canton, Ohio
Kirkus Reviews
As always in the Pushcart collections of stories, essays, and poems from the little magazines, there is a wide range of quality and a good balance of names familiar and scarcely known.

Series editor and publisher Henderson has long had a sharp eye for talent and for the quirky, if not the trendy. Here, despite the expected occasional dud, he has culled interesting works from 44 sources ranging from the high-profile Paris Review to the low- profile The Baffler. The latter publication, in fact, chips in with one of the anthology's highlights, a lengthy essay titled "Dark Age: Why Johnny Can't Dissent," by Tom Frank. Among other astute jabs, Frank eschews what passes for political "dialogue" from public officials and those on the campaign trail in favor of business journals and papers like the Wall Street Journal. There, he says, is the place "to find serious talk about national affairs." Barry Lopez's tribute to the late Wallace Stegner is also a gem, as is Hope Edelman's "Bruce Springsteen and the Story of Us," wherein she confesses to losing her virginity to the throbbing beat of "Hungry Heart." There's a potent short story by S.L. Wisenberg called "Big Ruthie Imagines Sex Without Pain," which may remind some of Grace Paley, and another fine piece of work by Daniel Orozco, "The Bridge," in which a member of a painting crew comes face-to-face with a woman who's just leapt to her death. The poetry entries don't always measure up. Lackluster poems from Czeslaw Milosz and Seamus Heaney are offset by sharp work from Kim Addonizio and Loretta Collins, whose "Fetish" is a wickedly funny paean to shoes.

The Pushcart series is the best of its kind and a worthy effort simply because Henderson ignores the latest trends and fads and zeroes in on quality wherever he happens to find it.

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780916366964
  • Publisher: Pushcart Press, The
  • Publication date: 10/28/1996
  • Series: Pushcart Prize Series
  • Pages: 550
  • Product dimensions: 9.60 (w) x 6.68 (h) x 1.89 (d)

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