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Dog Music: Poetry About Dogs
by Joseph Duemer (Editor: Jim Simmerman)
Product Group: Book
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin (1997-01-15)
ISBN: 0312151136
EAN: 9780312151133
Dewey Decimal #: 811.008036
Binding/Media: Paperback - 288 pages
Edition: Reprint
SKU: 01157
Condition: Used: Good
Comments: Good, remainder mark, some edge wear and crease on cover, interior clean
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
The finest collection of poems about dogs ever assembled. From the elegiac, to the contemplative, to the comic, more than 160 poems of Dog Music pay eloquent and heartfelt tribute to man's best friend.
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Customer Reviews
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Very disappointing book
Rating  (1)
Date: 2002-07-19
4 out of 7 customers found this reveiw helpful
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.
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Rich, often funny, and moving poems about dogs and people.
Rating  (5)
Date: 1999-03-29
10 out of 11 customers found this reveiw helpful
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.
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An important, moving collection, I read it over and over.
Rating (5)
Date: 1999-03-19
8 out of 8 customers found this reveiw helpful
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.
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