Dog Songs Author: Mary Oliver | Language: English | ISBN:
B00C5R79MI | Format: PDF
Dog Songs Description
A New York Times bestselling collection of new and favorite poems,
celebrating the dogs that have enriched the poet’s world Beloved by her readers, special to the poet’s own heart, Mary Oliver’s dog poems offer a special window into her world.
Dog Songs collects some of the most cherished poems together with new works, offering a portrait of Oliver’s relationship to the companions that have accompanied her daily walks, warmed her home, and inspired her work. To be illustrated with images of the dogs themselves, the subjects will come to colorful life here.
These are poems of love and laughter, heartbreak and grief. In these pages we visit with old friends, including Oliver’s well-loved Percy, and meet still others. Throughout, the many dogs of Oliver’s life emerge as fellow travelers, but also as guides, spirits capable of opening our eyes to the lessons of the moment and the joys of nature and connection.
Dog Songs is a testament to the power and depth of the human-animal exchange, from an observer of extraordinary vision.
- File Size: 5062 KB
- Print Length: 145 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1594204780
- Publisher: The Penguin Press (October 8, 2013)
- Sold by: Penguin Group (USA) LLC
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00C5R79MI
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #59,809 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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- #3
in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Literature & Fiction > Poetry > Contemporary - #5
in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Literature & Fiction > Poetry > Women - #26
in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Literature & Fiction > Poetry > American
I purchased this volume of poems DOG SONGS after hearing Mary Oliver interviewed on NPR. The collection is small, consisting of about 35 poems, some of which have been published in previous editions of Ms. Oliver's poetry, accompanied by beautiful drawings of what I assume are of the many dogs that have enriched this Pulitzer-prize-winning poet 's life over the years.
The poems are warm, moving and sometimes sad and cover every aspect of a dog's stay on this earth-- which the poet acknowledges is too short-- from his beginnings ("How It Begins"), to the joy that he brings to those who know him ("Little Dog's Rhapsody in the Night"), to his just being a dog (Percy), to her death ("Her Grave").
Ms. Oliver obviously loves dogs as much as anyone can as every page in this book bears witness. She takes her dog to the poetry class she teaches, making sure she has that requirement in her contract ("The Poetry Teacher"); she has cancelled trips ("Conversations") because of a beloved dog:
I had to go away for a few days so I called
the kennel and made an appointment. I guess
Bear overheard the conversation.
"Love and company," said Bear, "are the adornments
that change everything. I know they'll be
nice to me, but I'll be sad, sad, sad."
And pitifully he wrung his paws.
I cancelled the trip.
And Ms. Oliver writes again and again of her wish that dogs could run free as she expresses so eloquently in "If You Are Holding This Book":
You may not agree, you may not care, but
if you are holding this book you should know
that of all the sights I love in this world--
and there are plenty--very near the top of
the list is this one: dogs without leashes.
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