A Saturday Night at the Flying Dog & Other Poems (Volume 8) - Softcover

Southwick, Marcia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0932440851 ISBN 13: 9780932440853

Publisher: Oberlin College Press, 1999

Synopsis

High-spirited and unpredictable, Marcia Southwick's third collection of poems is, among other things, a remarkable mirror of our place and time. With unrelenting curiosity and brio, she reflects our materialistic, shopping-obsessed, informationally-exploding, and deeply confused culture right back at us, showing us the world we live in with unflinching honesty and compassionate affection. A Saturday Night at the Flying Dog & Other Poems is the winner of the 1998 FIELD Poetry Prize.

About this title

From the Back Cover

"Southwick's poems are funny and touching, sparked by her gift for expression and her expert use of collage and mimicry, but they are also memorable in their quest to see us all, ultimately, in terms of our spiritual searches and our deeper needs. If we are lost souls, Southwick shows us how hilarious our dilemmas can be and how here, at the end of the century, we flail around attempting to deal with them. This is a book to treasure, read aloud from, and share with friends." --David Young

Review

"In defiance of the precariousness of human existence on a minor planet revolving around a minor star, A Saturday Night at the Flying Dog is a celebration.... Marcia Southwick, with her expansive lines and insoucient voice, offers a gift of great good humor to weigh against what we now know to be the cosmic scale of things."

Edition details

• Publisher: Oberlin College Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0932440851
• ISBN 13: 9780932440853
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 72