Description:With an Introduction by Fred Chappell. Selections from 3,465 nominations made by editors of 364 other small independent literary presses and magazines, including college and university ones, of work they had published. Work from The Paris Review, BOA Editions, Curbstone Press, Ploughshares, The Literary Review, Firebrand Books, The Caribbean Writer, Tia Chucha Press, Tribe: An American Gay Journal, Thunder's Mouth Press and sixty-six others.The previous Editor's Choice volumes span the period from 1965 to 1978, and consist of 837 pages combined.