Wild Ducks Flying Backward

Name: Wild Ducks Flying Backward
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ISBN: 9780553804515

ISBN-10: 0553804510

ISBN-13: 9780553804515

Edition: 2005

Authors: Tom Robbins

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Known for his meaty seriocomic novels-expansive works that are simultaneously lowbrow and highbrow-Tom Robbins has also published over the years a number of short pieces, predominantly nonfiction. His travel articles, essays, and tributes to actors, musicians, sex kittens, and thinkers have appeared in publications ranging from "Esquire to "Harper's, from "Playboy to the "New York Times, "High Times, and "Life. A generous sampling, collected here for the first time and including works as diverse as scholarly art criticism and some decidedly untypical country- music lyrics, Wild Ducks Flying Backward offers a rare sweeping overview of the eclectic sensibility of an American original. …

Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 8/30/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Tom Robbins is a Southerner by birth, Robbins has lived in & around Seattle since 1962.

Introduction	p. 1
Travel Articles
Canyon of the Vaginas	p. 7
Two in the Bush	p. 24
The Eight-Story Kiss	p. 30
The Cannibal King Wants His Din-Din	p. 33
The Day the Earth Spit Warthogs	p. 37
Tributes
The Doors	p. 55
Nurse Duffy of MTV	p. 59
Joseph Campbell	p. 61
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg	p. 67
The Genius Waitress	p. 68
Ray Kroc	p. 70
Jennifer Jason Leigh	p. 75
Leonard Cohen	p. 77
Slipper Sipping	p. 81
Redheads	p. 84
Alan Rudolph	p. 86
Miniskirt Feminism	p. 89
The Sixties	p. 92
Diane Keaton	p. 97
Kissing	p. 99
Shree Bhagwan Rajneesh	p. 103
Ruby Montana	p. 108
Terence McKenna	p. 112
Thomas Pynchon	p. 117
Debra Winger	p. 119
Stories, Poems, & Lyrics
Triplets	p. 125
Dream of the Language Wheel	p. 127
Catch 28	p. 129
Three Haiku	p. 130
Moonlight Whoopee Cushion Sonata	p. 131
The Origin of Cigars	p. 138
Stick Indians	p. 139
Home Medicine	p. 142
Clair de Lune	p. 143
Aloha Nui	p. 145
Are You Ready for the New Urban Fragrances?	p. 146
Honky-Tonk Astronaut	p. 148
Creole Debutante	p. 150
Master Bo Ling	p. 151
R.S.V.P.	p. 152
My Heart Is Not a Poodle	p. 153
West to Satori	p. 155
Wild Card	p. 156
Open Wide	p. 158
Two for My Young Son	p. 159
The Towers of St. Ignatz	p. 160
Musings & Critiques
In Defiance of Gravity	p. 175
Till Lunch Do Us Part	p. 188
What Is Art and If We Know What Art Is, What Is Politics?	p. 198
Morris Louis: Empty and Full	p. 204
Lost in Translation	p. 209
Leo Kenney and the Geometry of Dreaming	p. 212
The Desire of His Object	p. 220
Responses
Write About One of Your Favorite Things	p. 225
How Do You Feel About America?	p. 228
What Do You Think Writer's Block Is and Have You Ever Had It?	p. 230
With What Fictional Character Do You Most Identify?	p. 231
Is the Writer Obligated to Use His/Her Medium as an Instrument for Social Betterment?	p. 233
Why Do You Live Where You Live?	p. 234
What Was Your First Outdoor Adventure?	p. 240
Do You Express Your Personal Political Opinions in Your Novels?	p. 243
How Would You Evaluate John Steinbeck?	p. 244
Tell Us About Your Favorite Car	p. 245
What Is Your Favorite Place in Nature?	p. 247
Send Us a Souvenir From the Road	p. 249
What Is the Function of Metaphor?	p. 251
Are You a Realist?	p. 253
What Is the Meaning of Life?	p. 255
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