Editor's Choice III: Fiction, Poetry & Art from the U.S. Small Press, 1984 to 1990 - Hardcover

Among The 61 Contributors Of Fiction And Poetry: Grace Paley; Faiz Ahmed Faiz; Billy Collins; W.P. Kinsella; Paul Bowles; Julia Alvarez; Amiri Baraka; Tom Disch; Rita Dove; Gregory Corso...

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0930370406 ISBN 13: 9780930370404

Publisher: The Spirit That Moves Us Press, 1991

Synopsis

With an Introduction by Fred Chappell. Selections from 3,465 nominations made by editors of 364 other small independent literary presses and magazines, including college and university ones, of work they had published.
Work from The Paris Review, BOA Editions, Curbstone Press, Ploughshares, The Literary Review, Firebrand Books, The Caribbean Writer, Tia Chucha Press, Tribe: An American Gay Journal, Thunder's Mouth Press and sixty-six others.
The previous Editor's Choice volumes span the period from 1965 to 1978, and consist of 837 pages combined.

About this title

From the Publisher:

The EDITOR'S CHOICE series was established in the light of much wonderful work going unnoticed and unread due to the small circulation of most small independent literary presses and magazines. Our aim is to bring to readers work they may otherwise never come across, and bring to the authors, a wider audience.

From the Author:

(Editor) Morty Sklar decided to publish the first EDITOR'S CHOICE (it wasn't planned as a series at first) when he and a writer friend read an anthology that professed to be the "Best of the Small Presses," but which looked to us to be engineered for commercial success (or as commercial as poetry, short stories and essays can get). The list of founding editors, contributing editors and nominating publishers was impressive, but the work was for the most part boring or ordinary. My friend, Jim Mulac and I set out to get the best work we could find. Although we hoped to get an occasional piece by a well-known person or/and publisher, and we did get plenty of that, our main criterion was that we respond strongly to the work. EDITOR'S CHOICE III, and EDITOR'S CHOICE II (co-edited with Mary Biggs) continued in this vein. We hope our choices give you pleasure and inspiration.

About this edition

• Publisher: The Spirit That Moves Us Press
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0930370406
• ISBN 13: 9780930370404
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336
• Editor: Morty Sklar, Contributing Editor: Robert Peters
• Illustrator: Among The 23 Visual Artists (including Photographers): Gertrude Degenhardt (cover), Palle Nielson, James C. Harrison, Peter Korniss, Gina Gilmour, Edie Scott Hoffman...