Dog Songs: Poems

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Dog Songs celebrates dogs Oliver encountered and was affectionate with and shows how integral they were to the poet’s daily life.

It is accepted by you that Daunt Books has no control over additional charges in relation to customs clearance.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. 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. There are wild things that have been altered, but only into a semblance of tameness, it is no real change. Trivial bump to fore edge, else a fine, crisp copy, in near-fine dust jacket, unclipped, small crease to front flap, bright and sharp.

Dog Songs showcases the power and depth of the human-animal exchange, a perspective with extraordinary vision. To understand oneself, to notice one another, to create moments of deep engagement with life's unanswerable that is The Examined Life. Then they would all arrive— Ben, his pals, maybe an unknown dog or two, all of them thirsty and happy. 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.Oliver, who ensured her employment contract included room for the dog; Oliver, who rebuilt worn fences and replaced chewed ropes; Oliver, who compared love for a dog to music.