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By Mary Oliver

ISBN-10: 1101638737

ISBN-13: 9781101638736

A New York Times bestselling choice of new and favourite poems, celebrating the canines that experience enriched the poet's world

Beloved by way of her readers, precise to the poet's personal center, Mary Oliver's puppy poems provide a distinct window into her international. Dog Songs collects the most adored poems including new works, supplying a portrait of Oliver's dating to the partners that experience observed her day-by-day walks, warmed her domestic, and encouraged her paintings. To be illustrated with photos of the canine themselves, the themes will come to colourful existence here.

These are poems of affection and laughter, heartbreak and grief. In those pages we stopover at with previous buddies, together with Oliver's well-loved Percy, and meet nonetheless others. all through, the numerous canine of Oliver's existence turn out to be fellow tourists, but additionally as courses, spirits in a position to starting our eyes to the teachings of the instant and the thrill of nature and connection.

Dog Songs is a testomony to the facility and intensity of the human-animal alternate, from an observer of amazing imaginative and prescient.

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The wolfhound, three feet at his shoulder and five feet to his tail, spies the long-haired Chihuahua, half a dog high, hidden in the grasses between her owner’s feet. The Chihuahua is six pounds, each of them trembling. With one languorous leap, his ears perked high, the wolfhound arrives in front of the Chihuahua. The Chihuahua looks demurely away; the wolfhound bends down to Chihuahua level and nips her side. The Chihuahua looks back at the hound, who raises his rear end up in the air, tail held high, in preparation to attack.

She punctuates her rousing with an exclamatory sneeze directly in my face. I open my eyes and she is gazing at me, smiling, panting a hello. Go look at a dog. Go on, look—maybe at one lying near you right now, curled around his folded legs on a dog bed, or sprawled on his side on the tile floor, paws flitting through the pasture of a dream. Take a good look—and now forget everything you know about this or any dog. This is admittedly a ridiculous exhortation: I don’t really expect that you could easily forget even the name or favored food or unique profile of your dog, let alone everything about him.

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