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The characteristics of Rillo's first three books--the word play, hard-edge riddling and the loony, cartoon-like lyricism used to render the coyote of the American deserts--find their most explosive, yet graceful expression in Wolf's Clothing. Wolf's Clothing mixes episodes from the Homeric "Hymn to Hermes" with lines taken from Raoul Walsh's film White Heat, starring James Cagney as the train robber Cody Jarrett, working the divine child's exploits into the film's scenarios. But "Coyote is the primary player in Wolf's Clothing, writes Susan Smith Nash in her introduction. The charming cattle rustler and the psychopathic train robber, "reveal themselves to be variations, however complex, of Coyote." Wolf's Clothing refers to the coyote's disheveled coat, a fashion statement dating from the late Pliocene/early Pleistocene, while turning St. Matthew's warning about wolves in sheep's clothing on its head. The encompassing reference is to shamanism. The riddles on identity, on disguise and disclosure, running through these rhyming quatrains possess an aura of mystical ferocity, an atavistic sheen: "Coyote and desert hare / caption and shibboleth / one's hard to scare / the other's scared to death." yet the playful, disarming coding found in Rillo's An Exchange of Quivers, Hymns, and Finders Keepers is still in evidence: "The desert travels with relics / of the holy blissful varmint / a pay-per-view X-ray depicts / him in a convict's striped garment."
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Seller: The Haunted Bookshop, LLC, Iowa City, IA, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Crisp, clean pages; no owners' marks; soft cover has gentle outward curls along foreedges and shows a little light shelfwear at corners; otherwise very well-kept. Seller Inventory # 00090998