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Best of Prairie schooner: fiction and poetry
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Publication Date
[2001]
Language
English
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From the Book
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.
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9780803289727
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