The new dog / Linda Pastan -- Yoko / Thom Gunn -- Stormy / William Carlos Williams -- Dog's God / Lucille Clifton The primavera / Hayden Carruth -- The dogs at Live Oak Beach, Santa Cruz / Alicia Ostriker -- Dog / Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- Over and over tune / Ionna Carlsen -- Oriane / James Schuyler -- If feeling isn't in it / John Brehm -- O Pug! / Stevie Smith -- Every dog's story / Mary Oliver -- My dog practices geometry / Cathryn Essinger -- Man and dog / Siegfried Sassoon -- Dog's death / John Updike -- A dog has died / Pablo Neruda -- The house dog's grave / Robinson Jeffers -- Sheepdog trials in Hyde Park / Cecil Day-Lewis -- Roads / Amy Lowell -- Verse for a certain dog / Dorothy Parker -- Song of the mishievous dog / Dylan Thomas -- On a spaniel ... & Beau's response / William Cowper -- The hunting dog / James Laughlin -- Introduction to killing / Bernadette Mayer -- A dialogue / Clarice Lispector -- Pi Dog and Wish Cat / Gavin Ewart -- Dogs in the park / Louis MacNiece -- Hunt / Henry Dumas -- Precolumbian / Homero Aridjis -- "are you a visitor?" / Robert Lax -- Kindness / Denise Levertov -- Dog music / Paul Zimmer -- Mungo bays the moon / Muriel Spark -- Oracle of the dog / Vincent Starrett -- A dog's life / Jose Emilio Pacheco -- Fragment 30 / Diogenes -- Dog and man / Kazuko Shiraishi -- Unknown dog / Sakutaro Hagiwara -- Pink dog / Elizabeth Bishop -- Dog act / Robert Lax -- A dog in San Francisco / Michael Ondaatje -- The dog / George Oppen -- Beagles / Paul Muldoon -- from Unrecounted / W.G. Sebald -- Grey August / Denise Levertov -- I started early -- Took my dog / Emily Dickinson -- Scroppo's dog / May Swenson -- "In my early years" / Eugenio Montale -- Nine below / Joy Jarjo -- The dog / Lars Gustaffson -- Unfinished landscape with a dog / Kate Northrop -- Dogs are Shakespearean, children are strangers / Delmore Schwartz -- The dog of art / Denise Levertov.
Summary:
"Canis familiaris: man's best friend. Dogs have followed at our heels from our earliest hunts and have remained our faithful companions through thick and thin, triumph and disaster. At every age of history and at every stage of our lives, we look to dogs for friendship, love, labor, understanding, admiration, and compassion. And yet they give us far more than even all that. From Diogenes to Clarice Lispector, our most beloved writers and poets have been receptive to canine inspiration, and Dog Poems brings together their wisdom, their wit, their insight, their empathy, and-of course-their sense of humor. Dogs speak archly in Pope's "On the Collar of a Dog." They lap up praise in Stevie Smith's "O Pug!" and Lawrence Ferlinghetti's "Dog," we contemplate our four-legged friends, and in doing so, our own fragile and compromised humanity. Ezra Pound muses, Pablo Neruda mourns, and Dylan Thomas sings. Gertrude Stein's famous quip-"I am I because my little dog knows me"-rings true: in understanding their dogs, these writers come a little closer to knowing themselves. And we're all the better for it"-- Provided by publisher.
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