Dog Songs: Poems

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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. I sit down to be with him," wrote novelist Doris Lessing of one of her beloved cats, "It means slowing myself down, getting rid of the fret and urgency . The dog would remind us of the pleasures of the body with its graceful physicality, and the acuity and rapture of the senses, and the beauty of forest and ocean and rain and our own breath. 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. I have no staff, no interns, not even an assistant — a thoroughly one-woman labor of love that is also my life and my livelihood.

com affiliate programs, designed to provide a means for sites to earn commissions by linking to books. Charlie Mackesy's illustrations of love and friendship and Gerald Durrell's beautiful stories of the collected pets he invited into his heart as a child and as an adult. People who have not only forged our world with curiosity and compassion but also plunged deeply into themselves. Oliver, who ensured her employment contract included room for the dog; Oliver, who rebuilt worn fences and replaced chewed ropes; Oliver, who compared love for a dog to music.But sometimes dreams are dark and wild and creepy and I wake and am afraid, though I don’t know why. Dog Songs begins a choice, a selection - a single moment out of which we move forward anew, accompanied.

Dog Songs celebrates dogs Oliver encountered and was affectionate with and shows how integral they were to the poet’s daily life. There is a common, calm refrain: to reach an animal, we must "get rid of fret" (as Lessing remarkably put it. Accompany Dog Songs with the science on how pets make us human, Steinbeck's late-in-life journey in the company of his dog Charley ("He cannot read, cannot drive a car but in his field he has no peer! There are wild things that have been altered, but only into a semblance of tameness, it is no real change. Songs are melodies that capture the dancing, vibrant, binding love that animals pull from us and give to us.Dog Songs ( public library) collects her most soul-stirring poems and short prose celebrating that special human-canine relationship and what it reveals about the meaning of our own lives — a beautiful manifestation of Oliver’s singular sieve for extracting from the particularities of the poetic subject the philosophical universalities of the human condition to illuminate what it means to live a good life, a full life, a life of purpose and presence. 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. 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.

We are experiencing delays with deliveries to many countries, but in most cases local services have now resumed. Dog Songs showcases the power and depth of the human-animal exchange, a perspective with extraordinary vision. Trivial bump to fore edge, else a fine, crisp copy, in near-fine dust jacket, unclipped, small crease to front flap, bright and sharp.Writing of the reciprocal displays of affection between humans and their best friends, Oliver describes: "'Tell me you love me,' he says.