Dog Songs: Poems

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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. Primarily a poet of nature, she lived for most of her writing career in Provincetown, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and has been compared to Emerson and Emily Dickinson.

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. You may not agree, you may not care, but if you are holding this book you should know that of all the sights I love in this world - and there are plenty - very near the top of the list is this one: dogs without leashes. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. Like Lessing, Oliver listens, reads, hears across language and species, and transports herself to the "still magical first world.

Dog Songs are American poet Mary Oliver's (September 10, 1935 - January 17, 2019) poetic reminiscences. 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. 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.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. 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.

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

Dog Songs begins a choice, a selection - a single moment out of which we move forward anew, accompanied.This brevity of our being is revisited courtesy of celebrated poet Mary Oliver in the trailing lines. 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.