Nine Lives of Morris: Great Tales from One Cool Cat! tells stories from Morris? varied life in the form of flash memoir, poetry and art. The thirty narratives recount episodes from his childhood in the Great Depression to his eighty-fifth birthday. Morris writes in the first person, present tense, to give the reader a feeling of immediacy. A dozen poems are free-standing or sprinkled into the prose. Forty of his original watercolors illustrate the...