Dog Music: Poetry About Dogs (Paperback)

~ Joseph Duemer (Author), Jim Simmerman (Editor)

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Review

"This spectacular book, unique and long-awaited, triumphantly celebrates one of our most important, least acknowledged relationships--the tie between people and their dogs (or between dogs and their people." --Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, author of The Hidden Life of Dogs
-- Review

Consolation by Pamela Alexander
The Dog At The Center Of The Universe by Pamela Alexander
The Dog by John Allman
Running by John Allman
A Dog After Love by Yehuda Amichai
The Dogs by Sondra Audin Armer
The Last Night You Are Gone by Renee A. Ashley
Lost Dogs by Renee A. Ashley
Dog's Tale by Jeff Avants
Sonnets From One State West: 2. Sunbathing by David Baker
Phantom Dog by Angela Ball
Giacometti's Dog by Robin Becker
Kilty Sue by Marck Lewis Beggs-uema
The Book Of The Dead Man (#68) by Marvin Bell
Wherever You Are by Marvin Bell
Walking With Virgil by David Biespiel
Pink Dog (rio De Janeiro) by Elizabeth Bishop
Losses by Cathy Smith Bowers
The Lost Dogs Of Phnom Penh by Kay Boyle
The Subsidy by William M. Bronk
Dogfight by Charles Bukowski
The Dogs On The Cliffs by Michael Burkard
A Guardian Tanya by Thomas Carper
Jogging With Tanya by Thomas Carper
Haiku by Hayden Carruth
Underground The Darkness Is The Light by Hayden Carruth
Your Dog Dies by Raymond Carver
Because The Dog Demands by Siv Cedering
Dog Days by Siv Cedering
After My Last Paycheck From The Factory, Two Thin Coupons by Marilyn Mei Ling Chin
Homage To Our Lady Of The Strays by David Citino
If Joan Of Arc Had A Dog by Robin Clark
Dog Light by William Clipman
Dog by Billy Collins
Rca Victor by Billy Collins
In The 9th Year Of The Literary War by Henri Coulette
Night Thoughts by Henri Coulette
History by Mark Cox
The Word by Mark Cox
Crying Wolf by Mary Crow
Dog Music by Robert Patrick Dana
A Dog Sleeping On My Feet by James Dickey
Dog Under False Pretenses by William Dickey
Hope by William Dickey
How To Like It by Stephen Dobyns
Two Dogs by Stephen Dowdall
Dogs At Dog Beach by Joseph Duemer
Something Like Happiness by Stephen Elliott Dunn
The Dog by Russell Edson
The Dog's Music by Russell Edson
Afternoon Walk by Ron Ezzie
Dog by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Hound Song by Donald Finkel
The New Dog: Variations On A Text By Jules Laforgue by Carol Frost
Kisses by Richard Frost
Black Dog, River, Moon by Reyes Garcia
Lines On A Dog's Face by Michael Gessner
The Gift by Louise Gluck
Rosy by Louise Gluck
Married In The Presence Of The Lord by Albert Goldbarth
Water Pie; Tonight, 12/11/72 by Albert Goldbarth
Bad Dogs by David Graham
Her Pet by Thomson William Gunn
Getting Rid Of The Dog By Taking It Around The Mountain by Rachel Hadas
Lazy Sleeping Dogs by Sidney, Jr. Hall
Sandra: At The Beaver Trap by Michael S. Harper
This Tree by William Hathaway
Lament For The Feet by H. L. Hix
Bear Fat by Linda Hogan
Pygmy Hut by Anselm Hollo
On The Dog Angel by Miroslav Holub
Like Feelings by Christopher Howell
This Afterward by Christopher Howell
About The Dogs Of Dachau by Richard Jackson
Like Dogs At A Concert by Stan James
The Stray Dog By The Summerhouse by Donald Justice
A Dog And A Boy by Richard Katrovas
Dog by Brigit Pegeen Kelly
Harmony Stoneworks, Late Winter by Brigit Pegeen Kelly
Taffy by Mary Kinzie
Custodian by Maxine W. Kumin
Lea, Sydney by Greg Kuzma
The Return by Greg Kuzma
Where The Dogs Lie Down With The Cats by Greg Kuzma
Instructions: The Dog (ray Speaks) by Sydney Lea
The Wrong Way Will Haunt You (shooting A Hound) by Sydney Lea
The Dog Of Art by Denise Levertov
Dog Poem by Philip Levine
So You Put The Dog To Sleep by Thomas Lux
The Dog In The Bar-room Mirror by Freya Manfred
Landscape With Dog by Paul Mariani
Lines I Told Myself I Wouldn't Write by Paul Mariani
Homer's Seeing-eye Dog by William Matthews
Loyal by William Matthews
A Metaphor Crosses The Road by Martha Dean Mcferren
In August by Thomas Mcgrath
The Victor Dog by James Ingram Merrill
Ali by William Stanley Merwin
Elephant, Dog, River by Giles Mitchell
Falling Dog by Michael Moos
The Throes by Donald Morrill
What The Dog Perhaps Hears by Lisel Mueller
The Black Dog: On Being A Poet by Joan (1945-) Murray
Arf by Jack Elliott Myers
Walking The Dog by Howard Nemerov
The Dogs Of Chinle by Greg Pape
Why Pets Run The World by Robert Parham
'coon Dogs by Michael Pettit
Pavlov's Dog by Michael Pettit
Panegyric For Gee by Stanley Plumly
Bad Dog by Lawrence Raab
To A Collie Pup by Carl Rakosi
Death Of A Dog by Bin Ramke
Dog by David Ray
The Old Dog by David Ray
This by Adrienne Cecile Rich
Poem To Begin The Second Decade Of Aids by Boyer Rickel
Trying To Write You A Poem On Our Anniversary by Michael J. Rosen
Elegy For A Beagle Mutt by Liz Rosenberg
Susquehanna Country by Liz Rosenberg
The Three-legged Dog by Dennis Schmitz
My Dog And I Grow Fat by James Seay
Living Snow by Brenda Shaw
Country Fair by Charles Simic
Fetch by Jim Simmerman
Maddy's Woods by Jim Simmerman
Bark With Authority by Maurya Simon
Dear Marvin by William Edgar Stafford
The Wolves by Frank Stanford
The Dog by Gerald Stern
Love For The Dog by Gerald Stern
The Black Moth by Frank Stewart
Dogs, Her Dreaming by Pamela Stewart
Newfoundland-praise by Pamela Stewart
Clancy The Dog by Robert Sward
Uncle Dog: The Poet At 9 by Robert Sward
August And February by Tanikawa Shuntaro
Dog by Tanikawa Shuntaro
Pearl And I Are Far Too Fat by Elizabeth M. Thomas
Dog Song by Anonymous
Dog's Death by John Updike
Divine Right by Gloria Vando
Nightshade by Ellen Bryant Voigt
The Trust by Ellen Bryant Voigt
Dogs In The Storm by Michael Waters
Village Dogs by Michael Waters
Dogs by Bruce Weigl
May by Bruce Weigl
Day After Chasing Porcupines by James Welch
The Pardon by Richard Wilbur
The Dog by Charles Kenneth Williams
To A Dog Injured In The Street by William Carlos Williams
The Dog Poisoner by Keith Wilson
Dog by Charles Penzel, Jr. Wright
Dog In A Cornfield by James Wright
The Old Dog In The Ruins Of The Graves At Arles by James Wright
The Dogs Of Zimmer by Paul Zimmer
Song Of The Black Dog by Paul Zimmer
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Review

"This spectacular book, unique and long-awaited, triumphantly celebrates one of our most important, least acknowledged relationships--the tie between people and their dogs (or between dogs and their people." --Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, author of The Hidden Life of Dogs

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Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin; Reprint edition (January 15, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312151136
• ISBN-13: 978-0312151133
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #919,509 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An important, moving collection, I read it over and over., March 18, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Dog Music: Poetry About Dogs (Hardcover)

The editors have created an important, moving collection, miles above similar books. The sum of its parts creates a complex vision of the profound relationship we have with our dogs. I read poems like Gerald Stern's "The Dog," and Jim Simmerman's "Fetch" over and over. I read them to unsuspecting friends on the phone long distance. My gorgeous Wally, a Norfolk Terrier, died in December of 1998. These poems, in the way that all great poetry can express and trigger feelings that expand our experience of our own lives, have made even my sorrow richer.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Rich, often funny, and moving poems about dogs and people., March 28, 1999

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This review is from: Dog Music: Poetry About Dogs (Hardcover)

I wanted to find some new ways to think about our dog, new ways to relate to him, and I wanted to read some good poems and maybe learn how to write a poem about a dog myself. The book has given me all that I asked and more. The poems are often very funny or very moving or both, and they are carefully observed accounts of dogs and dogs or dogs and people, and they are often tributes for a debt to a particular dog that is hard to tally and probably harder to pay back.

4 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Very disappointing book, July 19, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Dog Music: Poetry About Dogs (Hardcover)

I have many books on dog poetry and this one was upsetting to me.
Most of the poems in this book are very depressing and many with
vile language. None seemed to celebrate the wonder of dogs--most talked of kicking, killing and harming them. It was such a let down. i just had to say something, as I have read many books on dogs and I have great love for them. What a sad book.