![]() ![]() Saying versions of the same thing,” she writes, “I mean here. ![]() Certainly, readers may feel like much of the narrative’s meat happens offstage, but that’s part of the author’s charm. “The past is so often a place whose colors are only in my mind,” writes Myles. ![]() Myles divides the book into a series of mostly brief episodes-some true, some made-up, many experimental in structure and tone-that reflect Rosie’s thoughts as well as the author’s experiences with her own thoughts, but it never becomes overly nostalgic or sad. The book begins with a hand-addressed letter Myles received in 1999 that reads, “I take the liberty…of forcing you to legally take responsibility for the damages you have inflicted over a period of nine years upon the being you have taken to calling ‘Rosie.’ I am Rosie’s lawyer.” From there, the author spirals into an introspective look at what it means to be a dog and to be at the mercy of another human. ![]() Notorious poet Myles ( I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems 1975-2014, 2015, etc.) strikes again with an irreverently poetic memoir that traces her experience losing her pit bull Rosie. A memoir that stretches the limits of its genre by making a dog the textual centerpiece. ![]()
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