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Article: The Pushcart Prize XXV: Best of the Small Presses. (Anthology).(Brief Article)
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- World Literature Today
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- June 22, 2001
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The Pushcart Prize XXV: Best of the Small Presses Bill Henderson et al., ads. Wainscott, N.Y. Pushcart. 2001. 621 pages. $29.50 ISBN 1-888889-22-5
IN THIS twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of The Pushcart Prize, Bill Henderson provides a history of the twenty-five years of the prize. This year's volume contains seventy-four poems (more than ever before), essays, and short stories from fifty-four small presses.
Most of the fiction writers use first-person point of view. By reading Willa Cather's Lucy Gayheart and listening to Mozart's Requiem, Kathleen Hill's first-person narrator in "The Anointed" reaches an acceptance of death. Salvatore Scibona honors ...