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Dog Songs : thirty-five dog songs and one essay / Mary Oliver.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : The Penguin Press, 2013Description: 127 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1594204780 (hardback)
  • 9781594204784 (hardback)
Subject(s):
Contents:
How it begins -- How it is with us, and how it is with them -- If you are holding this book -- Every dog's story -- The Storm (Bear) -- Conversations - -Luke's junkyard song -- Luke -- Her grave -- Benjamin, who came from who knows where -- The dog has run off again -- Holding on to Benjamin -- The poetry teacher -- Bazougey -- Ropes -- Percy -- School -- Little Dog's rhapsody in the night -- Time passes -- Untitled -- Percy wakes me -- The sweetness of dogs -- Percy speaks while I am doing taxes -- Percy, waiting for Ricky -- Percy (2002-2009) -- For I will consider my dog Percy -- The first time Percy came back -- Ricky talks about talking -- The wicked smile -- The traveler -- Show time -- A bad day -- Henry -- How a lot of us become friends -- You never know where a conversation is going to go -- Dog talk.
Summary: "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"-- Provided by publisher.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Dr. James Carlson Library NonFiction 811.6 O48 Available 33111007232222
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

"The popularity of [ Dog Songs ] feels as inevitable and welcome as a wagging tail upon homecoming." -- The Boston Globe

Mary Oliver's Dog Songs is a celebration of the special bond between human and dog, as understood through the poet's relationships 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 merge as fellow travelers and as guides, uniquely able to open our eyes to the lessons of the moment and the joys of nature and connection.

How it begins -- How it is with us, and how it is with them -- If you are holding this book -- Every dog's story -- The Storm (Bear) -- Conversations - -Luke's junkyard song -- Luke -- Her grave -- Benjamin, who came from who knows where -- The dog has run off again -- Holding on to Benjamin -- The poetry teacher -- Bazougey -- Ropes -- Percy -- School -- Little Dog's rhapsody in the night -- Time passes -- Untitled -- Percy wakes me -- The sweetness of dogs -- Percy speaks while I am doing taxes -- Percy, waiting for Ricky -- Percy (2002-2009) -- For I will consider my dog Percy -- The first time Percy came back -- Ricky talks about talking -- The wicked smile -- The traveler -- Show time -- A bad day -- Henry -- How a lot of us become friends -- You never know where a conversation is going to go -- Dog talk.

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

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