Dog Songs: Poems

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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.

TLDR: You're safe — there are no nefarious "third parties" lurking on my watch or shedding crumbs of the "cookies" the rest of the internet uses. 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.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. There are wild things that have been altered, but only into a semblance of tameness, it is no real change. Dog Songs are American poet Mary Oliver's (September 10, 1935 - January 17, 2019) poetic reminiscences. This brevity of our being is revisited courtesy of celebrated poet Mary Oliver in the trailing lines. A dog can never tell you what she knows from the smells of the world, but you know, watching her, that you know almost nothing.

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.Songs are melodies that capture the dancing, vibrant, binding love that animals pull from us and give to us.