As in all of her poetry, Oliver patiently shows us how to slow, observe, withdraw, and speak the language of the senses. In her emotionally eloquent poetry collection Dog Songs, Mary Oliver brings the sheer gentleness and genius of her craft all over again.

We use Google Analytics to see what pages are most visited, and where in the world visitors are visiting from. First edition, first printing, signed by the author on the first blank, of this volume of Mary Oliver's much-loved dog poems. 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. 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. Writing of the reciprocal displays of affection between humans and their best friends, Oliver describes: "'Tell me you love me,' he says.

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. Dog Songs showcases the power and depth of the human-animal exchange, a perspective with extraordinary vision. 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.

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. Accompany Dog Songs with the science on how pets make us human, Steinbeck's late-in-life journey in the company of his dog Charley ("He cannot read, cannot drive a car but in his field he has no peer! There are wild things that have been altered, but only into a semblance of tameness, it is no real change. 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. 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.

Dog Songs celebrates dogs Oliver encountered and was affectionate with and shows how integral they were to the poet’s daily life. Trivial bump to fore edge, else a fine, crisp copy, in near-fine dust jacket, unclipped, small crease to front flap, bright and sharp.

Tim is a British printmaker who has mastered various techniques - silkscreens, monotypes, etchings - to convey the story in space. Dog Songs begins a choice, a selection - a single moment out of which we move forward anew, accompanied. 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. We own dogs as far as we beg them not to run away, a supplication they might listen to or not, "depending on a million things. 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.I have seen Ben place his nose meticulously into the shallow dampness of a deer's hoofprint and shut his eyes as if listening. People who have not only forged our world with curiosity and compassion but also plunged deeply into themselves. Dog Songs includes visits with old friends, like Oliver's most beloved dog Percy, and introduces still others in poems of love and laughter, heartbreak and grief.

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. 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. She] is a poet of wisdom and generosity whose vision allows us to look intimately at a world not of our making.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.