The Pushcart Prize XXVII Best of the Small Presses 2003 Edition

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ISBN: 9781888889352 | 1888889357
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Copyright: 1/17/2003

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For the 2003 edition, The Pushcart Prize presents scores of brilliant short stories, poems, and essays selected from hundreds of presses and literary journals with the help of over 200 distinguished contributing editors. This is a stunning presentation of new and celebrated authors, picked from almost 8,000 nominations.

Introduction	p. 9
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned (fiction)	p. 23
The Limit (memoir)	p. 39
The Lace Maker (poem)	p. 51
Scordatura (fiction)	p. 53
How to Meditate (memoir)	p. 69
The Sensual World (poem)	p. 78
Lunch at the Blacksmith (fiction)	p. 80
To be Honest (memoir)	p. 99
The Past (poem)	p. 109
The Mandelbrot Set (fiction)	p. 111
Camp Cedar Crest (memoir)	p. 125
From the Psalter (poem)	p. 133
Casualidades (fiction)	p. 134
Solatium (essay)	p. 142
The Church of Omnivorous Light (poem)	p. 152
House of Stone and Song (poem)	p. 154
The Pass (fiction)	p. 159
Line (memoir)	p. 170
The Beauties of Nature (poem)	p. 191
Ode to the Air Traffic Controller (poem)	p. 193
The Lives of Strangers (fiction)	p. 195
Traveling with Mother (memoir)	p. 215
Prayer Against the Experts and Their Ways (fiction)	p. 223
The Part of the Bee's Body Embedded in the Flesh (poem)	p. 226
I Demand to Know where You're Taking me (fiction)	p. 227
Ginkgo Tree (poem)	p. 249
The Master of Delft (essay)	p. 251
Cock Robin (poem)	p. 274
Amazing Grace (fiction)	p. 275
Heat Waves in Winter Distance (poem)	p. 293
The Road to Rome, and Back Again (memoir)	p. 294
The Least you Need to Know about Radio (fiction)	p. 300
Cord (poem)	p. 305
On the Nature of Human Romantic Interaction (fiction)	p. 308
Night Train (poem)	p. 325
Fields of Mercy (memoir)	p. 327
The Woman Who Hated Valentine's Day (poem)	p. 337
The Worst Degree of Unforgivable (fiction)	p. 338
The Hickeys on Sally Palermo's Neck: Some Thoughts on Beauty and the Creative Life (memoir)	p. 348
Two Variations on a Theme by Stevens (poem)	p. 360
Pilgrims (fiction)	p. 362
Red Berries (poem)	p. 378
Where the Dog is Buried (memoir)	p. 380
Book (poem)	p. 405
Candace Counts Coup (fiction)	p. 407
(My Lot to Spin the Purple: That the Tabernacle Should be Made) (poem)	p. 418
Sister Carrie at 101 (essay)	p. 421
He Writes to the Soul (poem)	p. 439
Dangerous Discoveries (memoir)	p. 441
In the Cafe (poem)	p. 447
Yangban (fiction)	p. 448
from the Lightning Field (poem)	p. 463
Jinx (fiction)	p. 467
Autumn in the Yard We Planted (poem)	p. 470
The Instructor (fiction)	p. 471
Cloud Atlas (poem)	p. 501
Landscape with Bees (poem)	p. 505
Cabeza (fiction)	p. 509
For a Chinese Poet Writing Through the Night up on the Edge of Mt. Pollux (poem)	p. 521
Autochthonic Song (poem)	p. 522
Sonnet (poem)	p. 525
Heron (poem)	p. 526
Off Island (fiction)	p. 528
Killing Salmon (poem)	p. 538
A Working Boy's Whitman (memoir)	p. 540
The Weight (fiction)	p. 562
Special Mention	p. 579
Presses Featured in the Pushcart Prize Editions Since 1976	p. 583
Contributing Small Presses	p. 589
Contributors' Notes	p. 598
Index	p. 601
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