Dog Music: Poetry about Dogs
The finest collection of poems about dogs ever assembled. From the elegiac, to the contemplative, to the comic, more than 160 poems of "Dog Music" pay eloquent and heartfelt tribute to man's best... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0312151136
ISBN13:9780312151133
Release Date:January 1997
Publisher:St. Martin's Griffin
Length:288 Pages
Weight:0.64 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 5.5" x 7.0"
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
Rich, often funny, and moving poems about dogs and people.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
I wanted to find some new ways to think about our dog, new ways to relate to him, and I wanted to read some good poems and maybe learn how to write a poem about a dog myself. The book has given me all that I asked and more. The poems are often very funny or very moving or both, and they are carefully observed accounts of dogs and dogs or dogs and people, and they are often tributes for a debt to a particular dog that is hard to tally and probably harder to pay back.
An important, moving collection, I read it over and over.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
The editors have created an important, moving collection, miles above similar books. The sum of its parts creates a complex vision of the profound relationship we have with our dogs. I read poems like Gerald Stern's "The Dog," and Jim Simmerman's "Fetch" over and over. I read them to unsuspecting friends on the phone long distance. My gorgeous Wally, a Norfolk Terrier, died in December of 1998. These poems, in the way that all great poetry can express and trigger feelings that expand our experience of our own lives, have made even my sorrow richer.
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