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Anyone who has known a canine companion should find a portrait of his or her friend somewhere in this book. The volume is an anthology of verse which touches on love, loss, friendship, ageing, death and the beyond - the entire scope of the human condition. It features poetry by Elizabeth Bishop, Emily Dickinson, T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Louise Gluck, Langston Hughes, Denise Levertov, Philip Levine, James Merrill, W.S. Merwin, Pablo Neruda, Mary Oliver, Dorothy Parker, Adrienne Rich, Rainer Maria Rilke, Charles Simic, Miguel de Unamumo, John Updike, Richard Wilbur, William Carlos Williams, William Wordsworth and others. The 30 poems are presented with charcoal illustrations.
About the Author: Ferris Cook is an artist and writer/editor/illustrator of ten previous books. She lives in New York.
Title: Bark: Selected Poems About Dogs
Publisher: Bulfinch Pr
Publication Date: 2000
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: As New