City Dog: Essays
by:
W.S. di Piero (author)
When a self-proclaimed "lazy scholar" embarks on a trip through his life's influencesas diverse as girl-group doo-wop, Yeats, and Van Goghreaders are in for an illuminating ride. This collection of essays from cultural critic Di Piero veers from his early years as the son of...
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When a self-proclaimed "lazy scholar" embarks on a trip through his life's influencesas diverse as girl-group doo-wop, Yeats, and Van Goghreaders are in for an illuminating ride. This collection of essays from cultural critic Di Piero veers from his early years as the son of immigrants in Philadelphia to his working life in art, film, music, and poetry. Along with a few choice essays reprinted from out-of-print collections, Di Piero's new work shows him to be insightful about himself and his work despite his protestations against the "boosterism" of autobiography. Through the lens of his sharp artistic analysis, readers see his storyan immigrant story filled with the music and mystery of a multilingual family, the men of his neighborhood wearing so many hats as they workedas the auspicious beginning for his life of observation and revelation. His prose sings along, tripping across slang, poetry, and painters with the same precision that allows him to nearly dance about architecture. Though Di Piero would claim that his life's path "lurches and swerves," his essays prove that he has wandered expansively and with purposea city dog trotting across continents, along pages, and through galleries.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780810125162 (0810125161)
Publish date: February 16th 2009
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Pages no: 208
Edition language: English