The Pushcart Prize XXVI: Best of the Small Presses, 2002 Edition (The Pushcart Prize Anthologies, 26) - Hardcover

Henderson, Bill; The Pushcart Prize Editors

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1888889306 ISBN 13: 9781888889307

Publisher: Pushcart Press, 2001

Synopsis

For the year 2002 edition, The Pushcart Prize presents over sixty stunning short stories, poems, and essays selected from hundreds of small presses and literary journals with the help of over 200 distinguished contributing editors. In the long-established Pushcart tradition, this fascinating collection combines the work of today's luminaries with a host of new talents, creating a deeply rewarding assembly of diverse voices. The most-honored literary series in America, The Pushcart Prize has been named a notable book of the year by the New York Times and hailed with Pushcart Press as "among the most influential in the development of the American book business" over the past century. The Pushcart Prize has been chosen for many Book-of-the-Month Club selections, and recently its editor was named small press "person of the year" by the Small Press Association.

About this title

About the Author

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.”

From Publishers Weekly

Begun in 1976 and "not expected by most to endure more than a year or two," according to Henderson, the annual Pushcart Prize, "the best of the small presses," has gained stature during the past quarter-century. This new anthology of winners not only features outstanding American poems, stories and essays from the past year, but also affirms the importance of the small, independent presses that published them. This mission is all the more timely in an industry currently dominated by five "empires," according to Henderson, who predicts that "there will always be a Pushcart Prize .. The louder the media noise, the stronger we [small presses] become." In each of the three genres appear familiar names as well as relative newcomers. Wole Soyinka and Louise Gl ck contribute moving poems, and there is a thoughtful one by Laura Kasischke on a young girl's fear of going bicycle riding with a group of boys. Ann Beattie and Russell Banks offer outstanding fiction; the less well-known Elizabeth Graver presents a haunting, absurd tale about a woman anticipating motherhood. The essays display the most stylistic variety; Denis Johnson weighs in on the Rainbow Gathering, and David Plante's theological questionings take him on an oddly comical road trip with his friend Mary Gordon. Many of the journals represented here are well-established standard bearers, such as the Paris Review, Ploughshares and the Kenyon Review. Some such as Hayden's Ferry Review may be less recognizable. Like the editors, any reader of this rich and voluminous text will be grateful to these Pushcart winners for "taking time, savoring ideas, daring to think long thoughts."

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Edition details

• Publisher: Pushcart Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1888889306
• ISBN 13: 9781888889307
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 550