Dog Songs and A Thousand Mornings, Mary Oliver
Dog Songs and A Thousand Mornings, Mary Oliver
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Dog Songs and A Thousand Mornings
Deluxe Edition

Author: Mary Oliver

Narrator: Mary Oliver

Unabridged: 1 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 03/06/2014


Synopsis

A New York Times bestselling poetry collection, featuring both Dog Songs and A Thousand Mornings

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, like Oliver’s beloved Percy, and introduces still others in poems of love and laughter, heartbreak and grief. 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. 

In A Thousand Mornings, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has come to define her life’s work, transporting us to the marshland and coastline of her beloved home, Provincetown, Massachusetts. Whether studying the leaves of a tree or mourning her treasured dog Percy, Oliver is open to the teachings contained in the smallest of moments and explores with startling clarity, humor, and kindness the mysteries of our daily experience.

About The Author

Born in a small town in Ohio, MARY OLIVER published her first book of poetry in 1963 at the age of twenty-eight. Over the course of her long career, she has received numerous awards. Her fourth book, American Primitive, won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1984. She has led workshops and held residencies at various colleges and universities, including Bennington College, where she held the Catharine Osgood Foster Chair for Distinguished Teaching. Oliver currently lives in Provincetown, Massachusetts.


Reviews

The good: Q: Or maybe it’s about the wonderful things that may happen if you break the ropes that are holding you. (c) Q: He shrugged his shoulders casually and smiled. “Je suis un chien du monde,” he said. (c) Q: Listen, a junkyard puppy learns quickly how to dream. Listen, whatever you see and love— that’s......more

Goodreads review by Barbara

I am not a lover of poetry; I am a lover of dogs. Knowing Mary Oliver as a renowned poet, I thought perhaps poetry about dogs, or through their eyes, might be just the thing for me. I now love Mary Oliver. Who would not love someone who understands and loves dogs as I do. Could dogs bring me to the......more


Quotes

The New York Times
Dog Songs....is a sweet golden retriever of a book that curls up with the reader.”