Dog Songs: Poems

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Percy needed love in the wakeful hours of the night and was "wild with the okayness" of being formidably cuddled and loved by human hands. The poems in 'Dog Songs' begin in the small everyday moments familiar to all dog lovers and become, through her extraordinary vision, meditations on the world and our place in it. First edition, first printing, signed by the author on the first blank, of this volume of Mary Oliver's much-loved dog poems.

This brevity of our being is revisited courtesy of celebrated poet Mary Oliver in the trailing lines. There are wild things that have been altered, but only into a semblance of tameness, it is no real change.They are a kind of poetry themselves when they are devoted not only to us but to the wet night, to the moon and the rabbit-smell in the grass and their own bodies leaping forward. Like Lessing, Oliver listens, reads, hears across language and species, and transports herself to the "still magical first world. We own dogs as far as we beg them not to run away, a supplication they might listen to or not, "depending on a million things. Dog Songs includes visits with old friends, like Oliver’s most beloved dog Percy, and introduces still others in poems of love and laughter, heartbreak and grief.

We use Google Analytics to see what pages are most visited, and where in the world visitors are visiting from. Trivial bump to fore edge, else a fine, crisp copy, in near-fine dust jacket, unclipped, small crease to front flap, bright and sharp. Dog Songs includes visits with old friends, like Oliver's most beloved dog Percy, and introduces still others in poems of love and laughter, heartbreak and grief. In 'Dog Songs', Mary Oliver celebrates the special bond between human and dog, as understood through her connection to the dogs who across the years accompanied her on her daily walks, warmed her home and inspired her work. com affiliate programs, designed to provide a means for sites to earn commissions by linking to books.

Registered office: WSM Services Limited, Connect House, 133-137 Alexandra Road, Wimbledon, LONDON SW19 7JY. It is not the least reason why we should honour as well as love the dog of our own life, and the dog down the street, and all the dogs not yet born. It is accepted by you that Daunt Books has no control over additional charges in relation to customs clearance.

Dog Songs celebrates dogs Oliver encountered and was affectionate with and shows how integral they were to the poet’s daily life. Mary Oliver is not only one of the sagest and most beloved poets of our time, a recipient of a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award, but is also among literary history’s greatest pet-lovers. I have seen Ben place his nose meticulously into the shallow dampness of a deer's hoofprint and shut his eyes as if listening.It is not the least reason why we should honor as well as love the dog of our own life, and the dog down the street, and all the dogs not yet born.