The Pushcart Prize XXVI: Best of the Small Presses 2002 Book

	Introduction	9
	The Cavemen in the Hedges	25
	Narrow Road to the Deep North	42
	Gratitude	57
	About Tere Who Was in Palomas	59
	Tomorrow's Bird	74
	At Horticulture Park	78
	Returning to Providence	80
	Suitcase Song	91
	An Official Reply	93
	Grief	110
	My Night with Philip Larkin	120
	The Ashes of August	121
	Inventory	138
	Semper Paratus	140
	Kinds of Sleep	151
	The Secrets of Bats	153
	A Short History of the Shadow	168
	Hippies	170
	Creeley Cursing in Church	185
	The Big-Breasted Pilgrim	186
	Three Crows	224
	The Bad Seed: A Guide	226
	Beetles	240
	Khwaja Khadir	242
	It is Hard not to Love the World	255
	The Mourning Door	256
	In Transit	266
	O Lost	268
	The Turning	286
	Reflections of an Uncertain Jew	288
	The Poet's Voice	298
	Melba Kuperschmid Returns	300
	Memory	306
	Alcyone	307
	The Fireman	311
	Bike Ride with Older Boys	328
	Self and Attributes	330
	The Thief of Tay Ninh	332
	Limen	342
	Labor	343
	Splinter	358
	Bit-O-Honey	360
	The Story of the Door	371
	By A Swimming Pool Outside Syracusa	375
	Death As a Fictitious Event	377
	Going	387
	Part of the Story	388
	Pain Thinks of the Beautiful Table	404
	The Price of Eggs in China	405
	Memoir	428
	Seven Types of Ambiguity	429
	I Am Mrs. Lorca	441
	Beethoven, Monet, Technology and Us	443
	Yellow Fever	452
	Grafting	454
	Recitation	465
	A Little Learning	467
	Archaeology	482
	Blood Sport	484
	In Praise of Coldness	495
	Things not Seen in a Rear-View Mirror	497
	The Palace at 4:00 A.M.	505
	Miles	507
	Inheritance	523
	The Names	530
	Her Garden	535
	Funktionslust	536
	To the Tune of a Small, Repeatable, and Passing Kindness	548
	The Moor	550
	The Children of this Land	557
	Fugue	559
	Special Mention	563
	Presses Featured in the Pushcart Prize Since 1976	567
	Contributing Small Presses	573
	Contributors' Notes	583
	Index	589