1999 Pushcart Prize Xxiii: Best Of The Small PressesThe truth is, though the Pushcart Prize is an anthology, it is something else besides. And to call it an institution (after many years it might be called that) is not to see it with full clarity. The Pushcart Prize is a handle on a whole society; and not simply a handle to get a hold of something, but to make an idea go. --Cynthia Ozick. |
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... never let go . But we didn't know that then . Sometimes we wore handkerchiefs over our faces . Most times we didn't ... never seen direct sunlight . The one thing you can count on with turkeys is that you never know how they are going to ...
... never let go . But we didn't know that then . Sometimes we wore handkerchiefs over our faces . Most times we didn't ... never seen direct sunlight . The one thing you can count on with turkeys is that you never know how they are going to ...
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... never grew worse , never seemed to get better , and never asked when they could leave . The world wasn't going to open up for these people ; it stayed stub- bornly shut , an aperture that let in no outside light . The same was true , in ...
... never grew worse , never seemed to get better , and never asked when they could leave . The world wasn't going to open up for these people ; it stayed stub- bornly shut , an aperture that let in no outside light . The same was true , in ...
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... Never again would I think of my mother in the old way . What mother never knew : In April 1983 , two years after her death , a creek that runs through the old Nissenbaum property flooded its banks , and several hundred feet of red ...
... Never again would I think of my mother in the old way . What mother never knew : In April 1983 , two years after her death , a creek that runs through the old Nissenbaum property flooded its banks , and several hundred feet of red ...
Contents
AS KINGFISHERS CATCH FIRE | 23 |
THE LECTURES ON LOVE | 40 |
GRANDMOTHER DEAD AT 99 YEARS AND 10 MONTHS | 68 |
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