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A collection of short stories, essays, and poems, culled from small presses and literary journals
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Bill Henderson is the founder and editor of the Pushcart Prize. He received the 2006 National Book Critic Circle’s Lifetime Achievement Award and the Poets & Writers / Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award. He is also the author of several memoirs, including All My Dogs: A Life. The founder of the Lead Pencil Club, Henderson lives on Long Island and In Maine where he runs the Pushcart bookstore – “the world’s smallest bookstore.”
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With this 12th edition, the Carey-Thomas Award-winning sampling of small presses and little magazines continues to uphold its reputation as a provocative forum for contemporary writing. The eclectic, experimental 1987-88 omnibus is conspicuously mournful and self-reflecting although the applications are universal. The first-person narrator of Gordon Lish's "Mr. Goldbaum" details his father's funeral and interment, and the deadening apathy of the survivors. A Chinese immigrant couple's discontented, discordant union is contemplated by their American daughters in "A Red Sweater" by Fae Myenne Ng. C. K. Williams's grief for the untimely loss of fellow-poet Paul Zweig is palpable in "Le Petit Salvie," and a Native American fathoms his own painful, irreversible demise in Paul West's inventive story "The Place in Flowers Where Pollen Rests." In a quest for self-realization and independence, a woman destroys a long-standing friendship in Rosellen Brown's "One of Two." A few extrospective selections balance the anthology, including William H. Gass's insightful "Some Snapshots from the Soviet Union," an account of a tense Soviet-American writers' conference. Paperback to Penguin.
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hardcover. first edition. 8vo 559pp. from front flap: "Pushcart Prize XII is, like previous volumes, a celebration of a wide variety of poets, essayists, and short story writers--52 in all--who are reprinted from presses that are both established and brand new. As usual, most of the authors in this edition appear in the series for the first time." #01132. near fine: clean, square, tight. very good: mild edge wear, NOT clipped ($28.00). Seller Inventory # 1057
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