Full name: Dog Songs: Poems

Author: Mary Oliver Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Poetry, Animals Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780143125839 9781594204784 0143125834 1594204780

Mary Oliver's Dog Songs is a celebration of the special bond between human and dog, as understood through the poet's relationship to the canines that have accompanied her daily walks, warmed her home, and inspired her work. Oliver's poems begin in the small everyday moments familiar to all dog lovers, but through her extraordinary vision these observations become higher meditations on the world and our place in it. Dog Songs includes visits with old friends, like Oliver's beloved Percy, and introduces still others in poems of love and laughter, heartbreak and grief. Throughout, the many dogs of Oliver's life emerge as fellow travelers and guides, uniquely able to open our eyes to the lessons of the moment and the joys of nature and connection. Similar books: Little Dog Poems by Kristine O'Connell George A Dazzling Display of Dogs by Betsy Franco The Far Field by Theodore Roethke Garbage by A. R. Ammons Lighthead by Terrance Hayes The Bridge by Hart Crane Actual Air by David Berman Spring and All by William Carlos Williams Words Under the Words by Naomi Shihab Nye The Lives of the Heart by Jane Hirshfield The Art of Drowning by Billy Collins Come on All You Ghosts by Matthew Zapruder Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty by Tony Hoagland The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde Sappho by Bliss Carman Devotions by Mary Oliver Thirst by Mary Oliver Why I Wake Early by Mary Oliver A Thousand Mornings by Mary Oliver House of Light by Mary Oliver