Laura's review
Wild Ducks Flying Backward
by Tom Robbins
Laura's review
Wild Ducks Flying Backward by Tom Robbins
Laura's review
rating:
This collection of essays, short fiction, poetry, art criticism, and a screenplay is worth it just for the 1967 (or '68?) review of the first time The Doors played in Seattle (he absolutely captures the essence [what I can imagine the essence would be] of the band making mad, angry, musical love to that audience) and 'Till Lunch Do Us Part,' his response to the question, "If you were on death row, what would you request for your last meal?" I use the latter essay for a great "how-to" example in my Composition 1 class. Read the poetry and art criticism quickly, or skip it altogether--their not awful, but not nearly as good as the pieces I mentioned or any of his profiles.
