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A Saturday Night at the Flying Dog
High-spirited and unpredictable, Marcia Southwick’s third collection is, among other things, a remarkable mirror of our place and time. With unrelenting curiosity and brio, she reflects our materialistic culture right back at us, showing us the world we live in with unflinching honesty and compassionate affection.
Table of Contents
Augury • Small Miracles • Twenty Ways to Tie a Sarong • My Sisters, the Oysters • The Winter of our Discontent & Other Seasons • Dorothy and Toto in New York • Medusa, 1996 • Stone Worship • Two Fairy Tale Figures Give Me Advice • Why I Hang Out with Nerds • Kriya • Poets Anonymous • The Amish on Rollerblades • An Invitation to New York • Fast Lane • I’ll Never Be Joanna • Chinese Box • Four Significant Childhoods • The Mood Museum • A Menagerie of Strangers • A Saturday Night at the Flying Dog • Black Pearls • Earthly Light • A Vacation in Boca Isn’t Rilke • A Portrait of Larry with Trogons • A Walk Along the Fox River • The Star Salesman • The World’s Greatest Electrician • Bodysitters, Inc. • Psychic Friends Network • The Virgin of Guadelupe • A Star is Born in the Eagle Nebula • The Lighter-Than-Air-Society • Notes • Acknowledgments