The Pushcart Prize XXVII: Best of the Small Presses 2003, Vol. 27 Book

	Introduction	9
	Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned	23
	The Limit	39
	The Lace Maker	51
	Scordatura	53
	How to Meditate	69
	The Sensual World	78
	Lunch at the Blacksmith	80
	To be Honest	99
	The Past	109
	The Mandelbrot Set	111
	Camp Cedar Crest	125
	From the Psalter	133
	Casualidades	134
	Solatium	142
	The Church of Omnivorous Light	152
	House of Stone and Song	154
	The Pass	159
	Line	170
	The Beauties of Nature	191
	Ode to the Air Traffic Controller	193
	The Lives of Strangers	195
	Traveling with Mother	215
	Prayer Against the Experts and Their Ways	223
	The Part of the Bee's Body Embedded in the Flesh	226
	I Demand to Know Where You're Taking Me	227
	Ginkgo Tree	249
	The Master of Delft	251
	Cock Robin	274
	Amazing Grace	275
	Heat Waves in Winter Distance	293
	The Road to Rome, and Back Again	294
	The Least You Need to Know About Radio	300
	Cord	305
	On the Nature of Human Romantic Interaction	308
	Night Train	325
	Fields of Mercy	327
	The Woman Who Hated Valentine's Day	337
	The Worst Degree of Unforgivable	338
	The Hickeys on Sally Palermo's Neck: Some Thoughts on Beauty and the Creative Life	348
	Two Variations on a Theme by Stevens	360
	Pilgrims	362
	Red Berries	378
	Where the Dog is Buried	380
	Book	405
	Candace Counts Coup	407
	(My Lot to Spin the Purple: That the Tabernacle Should be Made)	418
	Sister Carrie at 101	421
	He Writes to the Soul	439
	Dangerous Discoveries	441
	In the Cafe	447
	Yangban	448
	From The Lightning Field	463
	Jinx	467
	Autumn in the Yard We Planted	470
	The Instructor	471
	Cloud Atlas	501
	Landscape with Bees	505
	Cabeza	509
	For a Chinese Poet Writing Through the Night Up on the Edge of Mt. Pollux	521
	Autochthonic Song	522
	Sonnet	525
	Heron	526
	Off Island	528
	Killing Salmon	538
	A Working Boy's Whitman	540
	The Weight	562
	Special Mention	579
	Presses Featured in the Pushcart Prize Editions Since 1976	583
	Contributing Small Presses	589
	Contributors' Notes	598
	Index	601