2012 Pushcart Prize XXXVI best of the small presses _nodrm

A Collection Of Short Stories, Essays, And Poems, Culled From Small Presses And Literary Journals. Introduction / Bill Henderson -- Phantoms / Steven Milhauser -- Mr. Lytle : An Essay / John Jeremiah Sullivan -- Horse Latitudes / Kathleen Flenniken -- That Winter / Miha Mazzini -- Laugh / Stephen Dobyns -- Brief Lives / Paul Zimmer -- Song / John Murillo -- Nephlim / L. Annette Binder -- Ode To Late Middle Age / Richard Cecil -- Three Bartlet Pears / Alice Mattison -- Man On The Dump / Donald Platt -- Cowboys / Susan Steinberg -- December, Fever / Joy Katz -- Hosts / Susanne Antonetta -- Black People Can't Swim / Douglas Goetsch -- We Don't Deserve This / Sandra Leong -- Logophilia / B.h. Fairchild -- Tracing Back / Alice Friman -- Rockaway / Lydia Conklin -- Mending Wall / Janice N. Harrington -- Soldier Of Fortune / Bret Anthony Johnston -- Orphanage / Elaine Terranova -- Our Daily Toast / Brenda Miller -- Roll Out The Fool / William Trowbridge -- Final Concert / Eve Becker -- After 11 A.m. Bombardment / Ilya Kaminsky -- How To Fall In Love Properly / Julian Gough -- Watching My Mother Take Her Last Breath / Leon Stokesbury -- The Lobster Mafia Story / Anna Solomon -- A Tibetan Man In Hawley, Massachusetts / Pamela Stewart -- From House Of Prayer No. 2 / Mark Richard -- I'm Only Sleeping / John Rybicki -- Number Stations / Smith Henderson -- Casals / Gerald Stern -- Mishti Kukur / Deborah Thompson -- Patronized / Tara Hart -- The Ballad Of Mushie Momzer / Steve Stern -- My Sky Diary / Claire Bateman -- The Mfa/creative Writing System Is A Closed, Undemocratic, Medieval Guild System That Represses Good Writing / Anis Shivani -- Spell Against Gods / Patrick Phillips -- Glad To Be Human / Irene O'garden -- The Veranda / Frederic Tuten -- Theory Of Lipstick / Karla Huston -- Five / Lydia Davis -- Ocean State Job Lot / Stephen Burt -- Practice Journey / Albert Goldbarth -- Grace Notes / Nancy Mitchell -- Father Olufemi / Tim O'sullivan -- Meditation After An Excellent Dinner / Mark Halliday -- Never Come Back / Elizabeth Tallent -- Family Math / Alan Michael Parker -- Dark Horse / Lisa Couturier -- Murder Ballad / Jane Springer -- That Story / Jack Driscoll -- Russians / David Rigsbee -- Girls, At Play / Celeste Ng -- Silhouettes / Sarah Busse -- Sean / Robert Anthony Siegel -- The Telephone / Kathleen Graber -- Janjaweed Wife / E.c. Osondu -- The B's / Steve Myers -- Satan Sun / Raymond Andrews -- Little Wet Monster / Chad Sweeney -- Never Give An Inch / Gerald Howard -- Certainty / Judith Kitchen -- The Red Carpet / Juan Villoro. Edited By Bill Henderson ; With The Pushcart Prize Editors. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. In The Pushcart Prize XXXVI more than sixty selections of memoirs, poetry, essays, and short stories have been picked from thousands of nominations by Pushcart Press staff editors and hundreds of small presses. This year Michael Waters and Laura Kasischke will serve as guest poetry editors. The result: "The most creative, generous, and democratic of any of the annual volumes" (Rick Moody). Among its numerous awards, the Pushcart Prize has been chosen for the Poets Writers / Barnes Noble "Writers for Writers" Award and the National Book Critics Circle Lifetime Achievement recognition.