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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/59401698 Title: Wild ducks flying backward : the short writings of Tom Robbins. Author: Tom Robbins Publisher: New York : Bantam Books, 2005. ISBN/ISSN: 0553804510 9780553804515 OCLC:59401698

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Wild ducks flying backward : the short writings of Tom Robbins.

Author:	Tom Robbins
Publisher:	New York : Bantam Books, 2005.
Edition/Format:	Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	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. Embedded in this primarily journalistic compilation are a couple of short stories, a sheaf of largely unpublished poems, and an off-beat assessment of our divided nation.
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Subjects	Robbins, Tom -- Written works. Robbins, Tom -- Interviews. Popular culture -- Essays. View all subjects
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Additional Physical Format:	Online version: Robbins, Tom, 1936- Wild ducks flying backward. New York : Bantam Books, 2005 (OCoLC)607578689 Online version: Robbins, Tom, 1936- Wild ducks flying backward. New York : Bantam Books, 2005 (OCoLC)607726595
Named Person:	Tom Robbins; Tom Robbins
Material Type:	Internet resource
Document Type:	Book, Internet Resource
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ISBN:	0553804510 9780553804515
OCLC Number:	59401698
Description:	255 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents:	Travel articles. Canyon of the vaginas -- Two in the bush -- The eight-story kiss -- The cannibal king wants his din-din -- The day the earth spit warthogs. Tributes. The Doors -- Nurse Duffy of MTV -- Joseph Campbell -- Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg -- The genius waitress -- Ray Kroc -- Jennifer Jason Leigh -- Leonard Cohen -- Slipper sipping -- Redheads -- Alan Rudolph -- Miniskirt feminism -- The sixties -- Diane Keaton -- Kissing -- Shree Bhagwan Rajneesh -- Ruby Montana -- Terence McKenna -- Thomas Pynchon -- Debra Winger. Stories, poems, & lyrics. Triplets -- Dream of the language wheel -- Catch 28 -- Three haiku -- Moonlight whoopee cushion sonata -- The origin of cigars -- Stick Indians -- Home medicine -- Clair de Lune -- Aloha nui -- Are you ready for the new urban fragrances? -- Honky-tonk astronaut -- Creole debutante -- Master Bo Ling -- R.S.V.P. -- My heart is not a poodle -- West to Satori -- Wild card -- Open wide -- Two for my young son -- The towers of St. Ignatz. Musings & critiques. In defiance of gravity -- Till lunch do us part -- What is art and if we know what art is, what is politics? -- Morris Louis : empty and full -- Lost in translation -- Leo Kenney and the geometry of dreaming -- The desire of his object. Responses. Write about one of your favorite things -- How do you feel about America? -- What do you think writer's block is and have you ever had it? -- With what fictional character do you most identify? -- Is the writer obligated to use his/her medium as an instrument for social betterment? -- Why do you live where you live? -- What was your first outdoor adventure? -- Do you express your personal political opinions in your novels? -- How would you evaluate John Steinbeck? -- Tell us about your favorite car -- What is your favorite place in nature? -- Send us a souvenir from the road -- What is the function of metaphor? -- Are you a realist? -- What is the meaning of life?
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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. Embedded in this primarily journalistic compilation are a couple of short stories, a sheaf of largely unpublished poems, and an off-beat assessment of our divided nation.

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