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Life has had it’s challenges for most of us. Instead of a direct path from point A (where you started) to point B (where you want to be), the path contained many crossroads that included points of decision that put you on many windy roads, which may have hit you with a curve least expected. As children, the question many of you might have heard—what do you want to be when you grow up? 

 

Have you ever taken a look at your life and wondered "what the heck happened" to all the dreams and plans you had? Or said to yourself, "Life wasn't suppose to be this...

Life has had it’s challenges for most of us. Instead of a direct path from point A (where you started) to point B (where you want to be), the path contained many crossroads that included points of decision that put you on many windy roads, which may have hit you with a curve least expected. As children, the question many of you might have heard—what do you want to be when you grow up? 

 

Have you ever taken a look at your life and wondered "what the heck happened" to all the dreams and plans you had? Or said to yourself, "Life wasn't suppose to be this...

Mary Oliver's Dog Songs is a celebration of the special bond between human and dog, as understood through the poet's relationships to the canines that have accompanied her daily walks, warmed her home, and inspired her work. Oliver's poems begin in the small everyday moments familiar to all dog lovers, but through her extraordinary vision, these observations become higher meditations on the world and our place in it.

Dog Songs includes visits with old friends,...

Never afraid to shed the pretense of academic poetry, never shy of letting the power of an image lie in unadorned language, Mary Oliver offers us poems of arresting beauty that reflect on the power of love and the great gifts of the natural world. Inspired by the familiar lines from William Wordsworth, "To me the meanest flower that blows can give / Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears," she uncovers the evidence presented to us daily by nature, in rivers and stones, willows and field corn, the mockingbird's "embellishments," or the last hours of darkness.

The volume includes poems on crickets, toads, trout lilies, black snakes, goldenrod, bears, greeting the morning, watching the deer and, finally, lingering in happiness. Each poem is imbued with the extraordinary perceptions of a poet who considers the...