Dog Songs: Poems

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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 . 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. Tim is a British printmaker who has mastered various techniques - silkscreens, monotypes, etchings - to convey the story in space. 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.

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. 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. 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. The dog would remind us of the pleasures of the body with its graceful physicality, the acuity and rapture of the senses, and the beauty of forest and ocean and rain and our own breath.It is accepted by you that Daunt Books has no control over additional charges in relation to customs clearance. The popularity of [Dog Songs] feels as inevitable and welcome as a wagging tail upon homecoming’ Boston GlobeIn 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. 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. Registered office: WSM Services Limited, Connect House, 133-137 Alexandra Road, Wimbledon, LONDON SW19 7JY. But I want to extol not the sweetness nor the placidity of the dog, but the wilderness out of which he cannot step entirely and from which we benefit.

We are experiencing delays with deliveries to many countries, but in most cases local services have now resumed.So I climb on the bed where the light of the moon is shining on your face and I know it will be morning soon. 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. 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. As in all of her poetry, Oliver patiently shows us how to slow, observe, withdraw, and speak the language of the senses. One of her most poignant meditations strokes the heart of why dogs are so much more than the ornament Virginia Woolf’s nephew reduced them to.

First edition, first printing, signed by the author on the first blank, of this volume of Mary Oliver's much-loved dog poems. Her poetry is "an excellent antidote for the excesses of civilization, for too much hurry and inattention, and the baroque conventions of our social and professional lives. Dog Songs showcases the power and depth of the human-animal exchange, a perspective with extraordinary vision. But even more powerful is the other direction of that affirmative affection — the wholehearted devotion of dogs, who love us unconditionally and in the process teach us to love; in letting us see ourselves through their eyes, they help us believe what they see, believe that we are worthy of love, that we are love.It is little remembered, but it has become one of those pockets of nostalgia that makes one wistful. 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 seen Ben place his nose meticulously into the shallow dampness of a deer's hoofprint and shut his eyes as if listening. Trivial bump to fore edge, else a fine, crisp copy, in near-fine dust jacket, unclipped, small crease to front flap, bright and sharp. Oliver's capacity for simple ecstasy in response to the natural world remains - Time Out You may also be interested in.