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Doggerel

By Carmela Ciuraru

Doggerel Poetry

Doggerel

By Carmela Ciuraru

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From Chaucer to Billy Collins and from basset hounds to brindle bull terriers, Doggerel presents a robust brood of the most charming verse tributes ever offered to our beloved canine companions. The rich and assorted cadences of some of the most distinguished poets across the centuries ring out from these pages-from Spenser, Shakespeare, and Pope to Merrill, Merwin, and Muldoon-celebrating pooches of every pedigree and persuasion. Here is Margaret Cavendish's barking chorus of beagles on the hunt; Elizabeth Bishop's "Pink Dog” alongside Robyn Selman's "My Dog is Named for Elizabeth Bishop”; Charles Baxter's villanelle "Dog Kibble,” whose dog-narrator decides that "Life isn't meaningless because there's food”; and the desultory charms of Jane Kenyon's unleashed dog, nuzzling about on a drizzly afternoon. From lazy dogs curled up by the fireplace to audacious hounds howling at the moon, from mutts to purebreds, puppies to old dogs, Doggerel is an irresistible gathering of fast and faithful friends.
Product details
Number of Pages:
255
Release Date:
2003-11-11
Publication Date:
2003-11-11
Publisher:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
140004037X
ISBN13:
9781400040377
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
225 g
Height:
113 cm
Width:
166 cm
Thickness:
24 cm
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