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...PUSHCART PRIZE, VI: BEST OF THE SMALL PRESSES Edited by Bill Henderson Pushcart Press; 539 pages...
...development is almost all to the good. Those who contribute to little magazines know in advance that their readers will be few and their pay, if any, laughable. They must make a virtue of necessity and find gratification in their work itself; being singled out for recognition by The Pushcart Prize is a happy bonus...
...other hand, the announcement that the "best of the small presses" has been gathered in one volume poses some problems. Pushcart Editor and Publisher Bill Henderson writes that the 52 winners were chosen from more than 4,000 submissions by 2,000 presses, ranging from Abaxas (Madison, Wis.) to Zuezda (Berkeley, Calif.). Since no one person could comfortably read, much less intelligently compare, this avalanche of material, Henderson called on "the assistance of 147 staff and special contributing editors for this edition." Any anthology designed by so large a committee is bound to look more like a camel than...
Once its beauty-pageant pretensions are ignored, though, The Pushcart Prize, VI can be seen for what it is: a fascinating peek at the vast and largely hidden world of noncommercial publishing. This is where talented young or unknown writers are likely to make their first impressions. Perhaps the most interesting debut over the past year belongs to Gayle Baney Whittier, who teaches French literature at the State University of New York, Binghamton. Her short story Lost Time Accident, which opens the collection, sensitively records a girl's growing awareness of the life her father leads, exposed...
...remained a hip poetaster, a psychedelic pushcart salesman hawking Oedipal nightmares like Good Humors. No One Here Gets Out Alive portrays Morrison not as he was but in the image that he built. He died in Paris in 1971 at the age of 27, still playing Rimbaud the way a young actor cannot shake off a role even after he has lost the part...