Article: The Pushcart Prize XXVI.(Book Review)(Brief Article)

Bill Henderson et al., eds. Wainscott, N.Y. Pushcart (Norton, distr.). 2002. 619 pages. $30. ISBN 1-88888930-6

THE LIST OF WRITERS included in The Pushcart Prize XXVI may be more impressive than ever: fiction by Madison Smartt Bell, Russell Banks, and Ann Beattie (her first Pushcart appearance); poetry by Wole Soyinka, Donald Hall, Billy Collins, Anthony Hecht, and Daniel Hoffman; essays by Burton Raffel, David Plante, Andre Aciman, and Gary Amdahl. And then there is the complete and moving Gettysburg section from Thomas Wolfe's O Lost, which was cut from what became Look Homeward Angel.

The quality of writing is set from the first entry, Stacey ...

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