No Can Do

by O'Callaghan, Julie

• ISBN13: 9781852245115
• ISBN10: 1852245115
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-11-01
• Publisher: Dufour Editions

Summary

"Dramatic monologues which are deft, satiric, and deceptively cozy." - Poetry

Table of Contents

PART ONE
Yukinari Is Glad	11	(1)
The Three-foot Curtain of State	12	(1)
Calling Out	13	(1)
Spring Robe	14	(1)
Lady Norimitsu	15	(1)
Pilgrim	16	(1)
Reply	17	(1)
Yawns	18	(1)
Conundrums	19	(1)
Mosquito's Eyelash	20	(1)
Time	21	(1)
Bright	22	(1)
Sutra	23	(1)
Lady Hyobu	24	(1)
Sleeves	25	(1)
Squeamish	26	(1)
Paper Shortage	27	(1)
White Sound	28	(1)
Women with Children Should Keep Them Under Control	29	(1)
A View of Mount Fuji	30	(1)
Rumble	31	(1)
Summer Storm	32	(1)
Auspicious	33	(1)
Two Lines	34	(3)
PART TWO
Schmooze-Fest	37	(1)
How the Joint Works	38	(1)
Weather	39	(1)
Home	40	(1)
Outline for Next Chapter	41	(1)
Biography	42	(1)
Bagels, Snow	43	(1)
Fire Hydrants	44	(1)
Show-off Central	45	(1)
No Can Do	46	(1)
Hog Heaven	47	(1)
Sipper Lids	48	(1)
Hogging the Chow	49	(1)
McDougalmeister's	50	(1)
Skinny	51	(1)
Reflected	52	(1)
Not a Nice Place	53	(1)
Short-changed	54	(1)
Facing West	55	(1)
Autumn Foliage	56	(1)
The Long Room Gallery	57	(1)
To a Barge Passing on the Horizon	58	(1)
Book Look	59	(1)
Three-week Residency	60	(2)
Writing	62	(1)
Pelts	63	(1)
Credit Cards	64	(1)
Things	65	(1)
Argument with Life	66	(1)
Old Babes	67	(1)
Oh Mom	68	(5)
PART THREE
Alla Luna	73	(3)
The Deal	76	(1)
Touring the Museum of You	77	(1)
Over	78	(1)
Pleeeeeeeeease	79	(1)
Sketches for an Elegy	80