The 1998 Pushcart prize XXII : best of the small presses / edited by Bill Henderson with the Pushcart Prize editors.

Introduction / Bill Henderson
Courting a monk / Katherine Min
Demonology / Rick Moody
Elegy ending in the sound of a skipping rope / Larry Lewis
The beauty treatment / Stacey Richter
Ode to meaning / Robert Pinsky
Grounded / Claire Davis
The balloon / Mary Ruefle
Preacher / Steve Yarbrough
Stonehenge / Albert Goldbarth
Women dreaming of Jerusalem / Rachel Kadish
Atomic bride / Thomas Sayers Ellis
Give the millionaire a drink / Mike Newirth
What the water knows / Sam Hamill
Jessica, the hound & the casket trade / Thomas Lynch
Living with stripes / Kay Ryan
Oxygen / Ron Carlson
Blacklegs / Brigit Kelly
Not the plaster casters / Janice Eidus
What the animals teach us / Chard de Niord
New York days, 1958-1964 / Charles Simic
Karma Lollipop / Albert Saijo
Out of the woods / Josip Novakovich
Missing it / Dan Brown
The twelve plagues / Gerald Shapiro
Matinée idylls / Molly Bendall
We have time / Paul L. Allman
Door / Dana Levin
Knowing your place / Sylvia Watanabe
Executive suite / Michael Heffernan
Carp / Jessica Roeder
No turn on red / Richard Jackson
The kiss / Pamela Painter
Troubadour / David St. John
For the relief of unbearable urges / Nathan Englander
Davy Cricket / David Hayward
Umbilicus / James Alan McPherson
That half is almost gone / Marilyn Chin
The forest / Andrea Barrett
Fragments from the burnt notebooks of O. Fleming / Frank Polite
Civilization / Tomʹas Filer
Oysters and other workers / Turner Cassity
The wings / Kristin King
For the young men who died of AIDS / Julia Vinograd
Rhyming action / Charles Baxter
The lipstick tree / Kiana Davenport
Souls / Dannie Abse
Dentaphilia / Julia Slavin
L.A. dream #2 / Maureen Seaton
Native daughter / Lee Smith
Breathing lessons / Rane Arroyo
Two accidents : reflections on chance and creativity / Lewis Hyde
On the failure named Bosnia / P.H. Liotta
The famous torn and restored lit cigarette trick / Elizabeth Gilbert
Invierno / Junot Diaz
Sparrow / Reginald Gibbons
Return of the Boyceville flash / Gordon Weaver
Old Woodrat's sticky house / Gary Snyder
Jamming traffic / Rita Ariyoshi
Van Leeuwenhoek : 1675 / Linda Bierds
The appropriation of cultures / Percival Everett
Some information about 23 years of existence / Jeff Clark
The secret names of whores / Donald Rawley
Body parts (1968) / Bin Ramke
Killer whales / Susan Daitch
El Perifʹerico, or sleep / Joshua Clover
Zenobia / Gina Berriault
The man who wouldn't plant willow trees / A.E. Stallings
At least thirteen ways of looking at look / Gordon Lish
g The nude detective, a complaint / Dorothy Barresi
Gooseberry marsh / Gretchen Legler
Vous etes plus beaux que vous ne pensiez / Kenneth Koch
Jaget / Anne Carson
Scar Vegas / Tom Paine
The coat / Flannery O'Connor
Special mention
Contributors' notes
Presses featured in the Pushcart Prize since 1976
Contributing small presses
Index.