The Pushcart Prize XXXVIII: Best of the Small Presses 2014 Edition (The Pushcart Prize Anthologies, 38) - Hardcover

Henderson, Bill

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1888889705 ISBN 13: 9781888889703

Publisher: Pushcart Press, 2013

Synopsis

Winner of honors from the National Book Critics Circle, Publishers Weekly, Poets & Writers / Barnes & Noble and others, and acclaimed by readers and reviewers internationally, The Pushcart Prize series continues to be a testament to the flourishing of American fiction, essays, memoirs and poetry in our small, independent presses. As commercial publishers consolidate into a few profit-driven conglomerates, small presses encourage literature that is lasting, important and exciting.Edited with the assistance of over 200 distinguished Contributing Editors – including Guest Poetry Editors Patricia Smith and Arthur Sze – this volume includes over 60 fascinating works selected from thousands of nominations and hundreds of presses, a complete roster of today’s outstanding non-commercial publishers.As David Ulin, Los Angeles Times Book Critic commented on last year’s Pushcart Prize: “I’ve had a love of these anthologies for many years – for their diversity, their range of expression and also for their commitment to writing and publishing.”

About this title

About the Authors

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.”

More than 200 Contributing Editors and CO-Editors help select the annual volumes of The Pushcart Prize. The Pushcart Prize Editors come from almost every state in the USA and around the world. Every year more than 8,000 nominations are received for the Pushcart Prize.

Reviews

Each year for 38 years, a big, enticing collection of fiction, essays, and poems appears, evoking both the promise of a harvest and the awe of a celestial event. Here are more than 60 works selected from 700 diverse small-press publications. The poets are present in full force, including Afaa Michael Weaver with his beautiful if wrenching poem, “Blues in Five / Four, the Violence in Chicago.” The fiction bounty includes edgy stories by Amy Hempel and Lorrie Moore. And a number of essays delve into the conundrums of literature. In “Corn Maze,” Pam Houston maps the winding path between fiction and nonfiction. Andre Dubus III chronicles the response to his gritty memoir, Townie (2011 ), in his hometown. And in “The Gentle Man’s Library, A Nowaday Redux,” Bill Cotter recounts his adventures assembling a private library containing the “1,500 most important works of literature,” an undertaking rife with the very questions the exciting and invaluable Pushcart anthologies so affirmatively address about why we write, why we read, and why certain works reach far beyond their time and place. --Donna Seaman

Edition details

• Publisher: Pushcart Press
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1888889705
• ISBN 13: 9781888889703
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 600
• Editor: The Pushcart Prize Editors