The Pushcart prize, IV: best of the small presses

Introduction : about Pushcart Prize, IV

Home / Jayne Anne Phillips

From laughing with one eye / Gjertrud Schnackenberg Smyth

A renewal of the word / Barbara Myerhoff

Ice / AI

In another country / James Laughlin

The daisy dolls / Felisberto Hernández

Snow owl / Dave Smith

Lot's wife / Kristine Batey

The stone crab : a love poem / Robert Phillips

Night flight to Stockholm / Dallas Wiebe

Literature and ecology : an experiment in ecocriticism / William Rueckert

Ghosts like them / Shirley Ann Taggart

Elegy / David St. John

The ritual of memories / Tess Gallagher

Plowing with elephants / Lon Otto

Meeting Mescalito at Oak Hill Cemetery / Lorna Dee Cervantes

A Jean-Marie cookbook / Jeff Weinstein

The politics of anti-realism / Gerald Graff

Winter sleep / Mary Oliver

Wildflower / Stanley Plumly

Letters from a father / Mona Van Duyn

Early winter / Max Schott

My work in California / James B. Hall

The ownership of the night / Larry Levis

The Spanish image of death / César Vallejo

For Papa (and Marcus Garvey) / Thadious M. Davis

A vision expressed by a series of false statements / John Love

Jeffrey, believe me / Jane Smiley

Sweetness, a thinking machine / Joe Ashby Porter

To Ed Sissman / John Updike

The man whose blood tilted the earth / M.R. Doty

Lawrence at Taos / Shirley Kaufman

Contemporary poetry and the metaphors for the poem / Charles Molesworth

Another Margot chapter / R.C. Day

Sitting up, standing, taking steps / Ron Silliman

Made connections / Michael Harper

Anonymous courtesan in a jade shroud / Brenda Hillman

A woman in love with a bottle / Barbara Lovell -

Proteus / Judith Hoover

Quinnapoxet / Stanley Kunitz

Things that happen where there aren't any people / William Stafford

Lechery / Jayne Anne Phillips

Civilization and isolation / Vine Deloria

from Kiss of the spider woman / Manual Puig

Running away from home / Carolyn Kizer

The biography man / Gary Reilly

The nerves of a midwife : contemporary American women's poetry / Alicia Ostriker

Forgive us ... / George Venn

The hat in the swamp / Paul Metcalf

These women / Christine Schutt

Johnny Appleseed / Susan Strayer Deal

Some carry about this / Susan Strayer Deal

The stonecutter's horses / Robert Bringhurst

Grandmother (1895-1928) / Cleopatra Mathis

Rich / Ellen Gilchrist

Pig 311 / Margaret Ryan

American poetry : looking for a center / Ishmael Reed

I show the daffodils to the retarded kids / Constance Sharp

Dream / John Willson

Living with animals / Margaret Kent

The trial of Rozhdestvov / Russian Samizdat

Contributors notes

Outstanding writers

Outstanding small presses.