Cutting edges : young American fiction for the '70s / [edited by] Jack Hicks.

Includes bibliographical references.

Trout fishing in America / Richard Brautigan -- Ark of bones / Henry Dumas -- Me and Reb / Cecil Brown -- The music lesson / Irene Schram -- Mother Rooney unscrolls the hurt : a tiny novel / Barry Hannah -- Mrs. Bell and her dog / Jerry Bumpus -- The Chinatown kid / Frank Chin -- A matter of vocabulary / James Alan McPherson -- Corey receives the buffalo / Marge Piercy -- Hallelujah Bob / Thomas Brown Sanchez -- Joe Morning / James Crumley -- Shedding skin / Robert Ward -- Three men / Ernest J. Gaines -- What does the falcon owe? / Rosellen Brown -- Survival / M.F. Beal -- Neighbors / Raymond Carver -- How I contemplated the world-- / Joyce Carol Oates -- Passing / William Melvin Kelley -- Sticks and stones / Leonard Michaels -- Running out / Christopher Brookhouse -- The history of them all / Leonard Cohen -- Frozen voices / Charles Aukema -- from One flew over the cuckoo's nest / Ken Kesey -- Nog / Rudolph Wurlitzer -- Unready to wear / Kurt Vonnegut, jr. -- The screamers / Imamu Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) -- The loop garoo kid / Ishmael Reed -- The uniforms / Don DeLillo -- A good revolution / Paul Spike -- The birds / Ronald Sukenick -- See the moon? / Donald Barthelme -- End of the world chapter / Elia Katz.