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Full Description
After ten years of selecting great books from writers, new and established, Prairie Schooner celebrates the first decade of its Book Prize series by offering this collection of excerpts from each year's winners in fiction and poetry. Writers such as Brock Clarke, Anne Finger, Rynn Williams, and Paul Guest open windows to ordinary and fantastic experience showcasing the liveliness and power of contemporary literature. Greg Hrbek's darkly comic, genre-bending tales stand alongside Ted Gilley's stories about achieving bliss through pain and John Keeble's reflections on community and the difficulty of love. Here Shane Book's poems serve as an elegiac witness to suffering, while Kathleen Flenniken's poems consider ordinary women constructing their own significance, and Kara Candito's explore sex, loss, and human passions.
Whether the topic is fantastic or quotidian, childbirth or monsters, South American airplane disaster or suburban Wisconsin, this writing carries us to the furthest reaches of human experience.
Contents
Foreword by Hilda Raz 2003Cortney Davis "Leopold's Maneuvers" "March 28, 2001 / March 28, 1945"K.L. Cook "Last Call" 2004Rynn Williams "The Sample Makers" "Big Yard"Brock Clarke "The Fund-Raiser's Dance Card" 2005Kathleen Flenniken "Preservation" "Murder Mystery"John Keeble ""The Cross" 2006Paul Guest "Elba" "These Arms of Mine"Jesse Lee Kercheval "Beasts" 2007Mari L'Esperance "Pantoum of the Blind Cambodian Woman" "Finding My Mother"Katherine Vaz "Lisbon Story" 2008Kara Candito "Self-Portrait with an Ice Pick" "Carnivale, 1934"Anne Finger "Vincent" 2009Shane Book "Dust"Ted Gilley "Physical Wisdom" 2010James Crews "Paradoxical Undressing" "Metacognition" "The Bees Have Not Yet Left Us"Greg Hrbek "Sagittarius" 2011Susan Blackwell Ramsey "Boliche" "Knitting Lace"Karen Brown "Little Sinners" 2012Orlando Ricardo Menes
"Elegy for Great-Uncle Julio, Cane Cutter"
"Television, a Patient Teacher"
Xhenet Aliu
"Flipping Property"
Source Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
