The Bray: An Introduction -- The Dogs Howl -- Keeping the Homefires Burning -- Vorticist Lewis/Vorticist Pound -- Phantom of the Arts -- Murdering to Create -- The Woman Most Likely To Raise Dogs -- Dramatic Disproportionment -- Metamorphosis -- To the Dogs -- Sweating It -- What America Abandons Abandons America -- On Alien Land -- Strong but Fragile Survivors -- One of Us -- The Crazy House -- Winter in a Summer Town -- Convincing the Soloist to Join the Band -- Blood of an Innocent -- Nothing Left Behind -- Living Politics -- The Collector -- Between Fire and Ice -- A Torn Curtain -- Precise Imprecision -- Outside the Frame -- Deception -- Four Films of Ingmar Bergman -- Denying Chance -- The Ultimate Road Trip -- Journey to the House of Shaws -- The Resounding Dance of Silence -- To Begin Is to Never End -- A Quiet Realist -- The Danish "It" Girl -- The Present's Chronic Revision -- Revolutions -- Everything but Life Itself -- The Unordinary Obsessions of Ordinary Lives -- The Pits -- Dogs in Space -- A Battle for Love -- Doggone -- Sleeping with the Dogs -- What Is To Be Done? -- Nine Nearly Forgotten Nights in the Nation's Capital: The 9th Night (Reading on the Hill) -- Trumpeting -- Giving Poetry "Back to People" -- The Future of Poetry Publishing.
Summary:
In what is now the 5th published volume of Messerli's cultural memoirs, Messerli again mixes personal experiences and encounters with annual cultural events in art, music, dance, history, film, poetry, fiction, drama, television, food, performance and popular culture. The 2007 volume began as an assessment of where things were heading, as the author perceived, but strangely grew also to be a book that traced actual encounters with the four-legged pet.
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