The Pushcart prize, XVIII, 1993-1994: best of the small presses

Introduction / Bill Henderson

Marie / Edward P. Jones

Wallace Stevens / Robert Hass

In the land of the lotus eaters / Tony Hoagland

Days of heaven / Rick Bass

Tell me everything / Leonard Michaels

Note I left for Gerald Stern in an office I borrowed, and he would next, at a summer writers conference / William Mattews

Larabi's ox / Tony Ardizzone

Carla's story / Peter Coyote

Convicta at combusta / Joanna Scott

Rough music / Deborah Digges

Estivation / Susan Bergman

Questions for Ecclesiastes / Mark Jarman

A.M. : the hopeful monster / Alice Fulton

A chick from my dream life / Karen E. Bender

Green grow the grasses o / D.R. MacDonald

To write of repeated patterns / Albert Goldbarth

The first six seals / David Wojahn

Guilt trip / David Lehman.

Somebody / Rebecca McClanahan

The writers' model / Molly Giles

White hunter / Diane Johnson

Deaf poem / Tess Gallagher

Forrest in the trees / Dennis Loy Johnson

The parakeet and the cat / Scott Bradfield

Homage to the runner : bloody brain work / Marvin Bell

Kala : Saturday night at the Pahala Theatre / Lois-Ann Yamanaka

The watcher / Edward Hirsch

The hunger artist by Franz Kafka : a story / Daniel Stern

The sun, the rain / Marie Sheppard Williams

Two cities : on the Iliad / Suzanne Gardinier

Sleep apnea / Mark Cox

Ginza Samba / Robert Pinsky

Benjamin Claire, North Dakota tradesman, writes to the president of the United States / Barry Lopez

Van / David Rattray

Shelter / Bruce Weigl

Change my evil ways / David Rivard.

The ladder : Roger Vail's photo of a rockface in the Carrara (Italy) marble quarries / Dennis Schmitz

The pilgrim virgin / Joseph Maiolo

Christopher / Diane Glancy

Complaint against the arsonist / Stanley Plumly

Somewhere along the line / Antler

The life of the body / Tobias Wolff

Population / Mark Halliday

The butcher / Michael Bendzela

Coleman Valley Road / Gerald Stern

Clumsy guys / Tomaz Salamun

An island notebook / Alison Deming

Monday her car wouldn't start / Barbara Selfridge

French horn / Robin Behn

In the John Dillinger museum / Susan Neville

Choosing your names / Kothar Wa-Khasis

Sycamore Canyon nocturne / Christopher Buckley

Tomorrow, we'll dance in America / James Harms.

Woman kills sweetheart with bowling ball / Laura Kasischke

Same old big magic / Patricia Henley

The dig / Lynn Emanuel

The old testament / Philip Levine

Wouldn't a title just make it worse? / Gordon Lish

In the cloud chamber / Roger Weingarten

"Nearer God, nearer realite" / Joellen Kwiatek

Three protrusions / David Foster Wallace

Special mention

Presses featured in the Pushcart Prize Editions (1976-1993)

Contributors' notes

Contributing small presses

Index.