Born in a small town in Ohio, Mary Oliver published her first book of poetry in 1963 at the age of 28. 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.
“Dog Songs . . . is a sweet golden retriever of a book that
curls up with the reader.” —The New York Times
“Oliver . . . is one of our most adored poets, and a longtime lover
of dogs. The popularity of [Dog Songs] feels as inevitable and
welcome as a wagging tail upon homecoming.” —The Boston
Globe
“Mary Oliver is a canine lover par excellence. Her combo of
woman’s best friend and poetry is utterly
irresistible.” —Oprah.com “Mary Oliver’s Dog Songs
is, plainly put, a lovely and accessible book of poems.” —The
Rumpus“Oliver’s capacity for simple ecstasy in response to the
natural world remains. The new Dog Songs turns . . . material about
canines into something meaningful.” —Time Out
“The set of poems all feature dogs, a species much beloved by the
poet; she writes of her canine companions with as much awe and
reverence as she does other miraculous beasts and natural
phenomena. They read as embodiments of the natural order,
comprehending the cycle of life and death in ways no human
can.” —Bust Magazine “Dog Songs collects her most
soul-stirring poems and short prose celebrating that special
human-canine relationship and what it reveals about the meaning of
our own lives—a beautiful manifestation of Oliver’s singular sieve
for extracting from the particularities of the poetic subject the
philosophical universalities of the human condition to illuminate
what it means to live a good life, a full life, a life of purpose
and presence.” —Brain Pickings“The collection invites us to
linger awhile in the pure happiness Oliver feels toward dogs, most
notably, her beloved dog Percy . . . For Oliver, nature is our
teacher and dogs some of the best
professors.” —Bookish, The Houston Chronicle
“Renowned for her love of nature, Ms. Oliver writes exquisite,
lyrical poems that . . . remind the reader of how much there is to
love in this world. Nowhere is this love more evident than in
Oliver’s latest collection, Dog Songs . . . These poems will
make you smile, laugh, cry and nod your head in delighted
agreement.” —The Bark
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