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

Complement it with The Big New Yorker Book of Dogs, one of the best art books of 2012, John Homans’s impossibly moving What’s a Dog For? I sit down to be with him," wrote novelist Doris Lessing of one of her beloved cats, "It means slowing myself down, getting rid of the fret and urgency .

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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. She] is a poet of wisdom and generosity whose vision allows us to look intimately at a world not of our making. We are experiencing delays with deliveries to many countries, but in most cases local services have now resumed. As in all of her poetry, Oliver patiently shows us how to slow, observe, withdraw, and speak the language of the senses.To understand oneself, to notice one another, to create moments of deep engagement with life's unanswerable that is The Examined Life. If this labor makes your own life more livable in any way, please consider aiding its sustenance with a one-time or loyal donation. Tim is a British printmaker who has mastered various techniques - silkscreens, monotypes, etchings - to convey the story in space. There are wild things that have been altered, but only into a semblance of tameness, it is no real change.

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. First edition, first printing, signed by the author on the first blank, of this volume of Mary Oliver's much-loved dog poems. 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.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. Mary Oliver is not only one of the sagest and most beloved poets of our time, a recipient of a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award, but is also among literary history’s greatest pet-lovers.