Format:
Book
Title:
Best of Prairie schooner : fiction and poetry / edited by Hilda Raz.
Call Number:
810.8 Best
Publisher, Date:
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2001.
Description:
xxi, 319 p. ; 23 cm.
Subjects:
American literature -- 20th century.
Genre:
Poetry.
Other Author:
Raz, Hilda.
Other Title:
Prairie schooner.
Contents:
Introduction / Hilda Raz -- Larabi's Ox / Tony Ardizzone -- Maggie of the Green Bottles / Toni Cade Bambara -- The Eve of the Spirit Festival / Lan Samantha Chang -- Nebraska / Ron Hansen -- The Washing Machine / Ivan Klima -- The Assailant / Joyce Carol Oates -- First Views of the Enemy / J.C. (Joyce Carol) Oates -- Stop Frame / Marlene Nourbese Philip -- Watermelon Seeds / Susan Power -- An Evening Meal / Reynolds Price -- The Dowry / Richard Russo -- The Old Farmhouse and the Dog-wife / Susan Fromberg Schaeffer -- What I Did for Love / Lynne Sharon Schwartz -- Boston Year / Elizabeth Alexander -- Wake / Sherman Alexie -- Toward Conception / Sherman Alexie -- Commissary / A.R. Ammons -- Poison / David Baker -- Astrological Guide / Charles Baxter -- In the Days of Awe / Robin Becker -- Shaken After Receiving a Letter from a Miami Poet with a Mean Tongue Who Doesn't Want a Bridge to Cuba / Ruth Behar -- The Clock Shoe / Sandra Berris -- Love Talk / Michael J. Bugeja -- the laughing heart / Charles Bukowski -- Musee / Scott Cairns -- Cuban Poetry / Rafael Campo --
The 10,000th AIDS Death in San Francisco / Rafael Campo -- Botanical Nomenclature / Amy Clampitt -- The Changeling / Judith Oritz Cofer -- Claims / Judith Ortiz Cofer -- The Woman Who Was Left at the Altar / Judith Ortiz Cofer -- Running / Martha Collins -- Husband and Wife / Peter Cooley -- Letting the Grounds Settle / Jim Daniels -- I Visit the Prosthesis Lady / Helene Davis -- For My First Grade Teacher and Her Special Messenger / Toi Derricotte -- Family Secrets / Toi Derricotte -- What to Accept / Tom Disch -- The Other Side of the House / Rita Dove -- Father, Mother, Robert Henley Who Hanged Himself in the Ninth Grade, Et. Al / Stephen Dunn -- Walt Whitman Mall / Cornelius Eady -- Anger / Cornelius Eady -- Dracula / Lynn Emanuel -- What I Know About the End of the Second World War / Lynn Emanuel -- A Bird Flies into the Room and Then Flies Out Again / John Engman -- The Return / Louise Erdrich -- Two Sisters / Jane Flanders -- Apple Rind / Carol Frost -- Cathay / Patricia Goedicke -- "Jeff" of "Mutt and Jeff" Leans on Air / Albert Goldbarth -- Repeated Sightings / Albert Goldbarth -- from Open Windows / Marilyn Hacker --
To a Youngish Professor Who Has Waxed Eloquent Over Certain Students / Rachel Hadas -- Friday Night / Linda Hogan -- Such Beauty / Jonathan Holden -- For Johannes Edfelt / David Ignatow -- For Rose / David Ignatow -- Hope / Richard Jackson -- Sardines / Phyllis Janowitz -- Outside / Mark Jarman -- Numbers / Allison Joseph -- As the President Spoke / Ted Kooser -- The Riddle of Noah / Maxine Kumin -- A History Poem / Alice Lee -- Exact Change / David Lehman -- Singing Miriam's Lament / Cynthia Macdonald -- Letting Go / Walter McDonald -- Noise and a Few Words / Judson Mitcham -- Will / Judith Moffett -- Coatlicue's Rules: Advice from an Aztec Goddess / Pat Mora -- Hearing Impairment / Les A. Murray -- Cold Snap / Leonard Nathan -- The Revised Version / Howard Nemerov -- The Sky Is Full of Blue and Full of the Mind of God / Kathleen Norris -- No One Thinks of Tegucigalpa / Naomi Shihab Nye -- Unreconstructed / Ed Ochester -- The Moment / Sharon Olds -- Maria Mitchell in the Great Beyond with Marilyn Monroe / Carole Simmons Oles -- Maria's Ghost Addresses Hawthorne Concerning Chapter Five of The Marble Faun, in Which She Appears / Carole Simmons Oles -- Howard / Mary Oliver -- Surviving / Alicia Ostriker --
The Weekend Gardener / Eric Pankey -- A Craving for Salt / Linda Pastan -- Employment Alternatives / Michael Pettit -- Edith Piaf Dead / Alberto Rios -- Rolling Naked in the Morning Dew / Pattiann Rogers -- Crushed: Chapter Nine / Liz Rosenberg -- All Be Riders / Hillel Schwartz -- Exquisite Incumbent / Maureen Seaton and Denise Duhamel -- The Pornography Box / Dave Smith -- Chisme at Rivera's Studio / Gary Soto -- Agatha's Butterfly / Marcia Southwick -- Yes, Think / Ruth Stone -- On First Looking into Diringer's The Alphabet: A Key to the History of Mankind / Stephanie Strickland -- As told to me / Terese Svoboda -- I Have Lost the Address of My Country / Karen Swenson -- First Sex / Richard Tayson -- Three Dreams of Disaster / Chase Twichell -- Star Reader -- Palm Reader / Reetika Vazirani -- White Elephants / Reetika Vazirani -- The Pregnant Lady Playing Tennis / Karen Volkman -- Peacock Display / David Wagoner -- Sailor's Daughter / Diane Wakoski -- The Hell Mural / Ronald Wallace -- The Way of Tet / Brace Weigl -- The Deaf Crone / James L. White -- Lies Between Fires / Peter Wild -- Facing into It / Eleanor Wilner -- After / David Wojahn.
ISBN:
0803289723 (pbk. : alk. paper)