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A DOG RUNS THROUGH IT
What is it about dogs, and dog people? We know who we are. We stop strangers on the street who just happen to be walking a dog and we talk to them. We hang out in dog parks. We will cross a street to greet an unknown dog on the other side. And when a dog appears early in a movie, we worry that something will happen to it by the end.
It's not simply the wish to have company or to be unconditionally loved. It's something much more instinctive, even primal. Perhaps when our ancestors were domesticating dogs by long-ago campfires, a process that took years, we were learning to need them as they would learn to need us.
Linda Pastan's A Dog Runs Through It is a heartfelt and whimsical collection of poems about the dogs that have enriched her life. A perfect gift for book and dog lovers!
Applying to Bellagio
They take husbands,
but they don't take dogs.
Ridiculous!
and all because
they fear that barking
may disturb the muse.
Just ask Calliope.
I'm sure she'd choose
a silky spaniel
with a fluent tail
for inspiration, not
some human male.
I guess I'll have to stay
at home to write,
with dog and husband both
here, in plain sight.
Linda Pastan is the two-time National Book Award finalist for Carnival Evening (W.W. Norton 1998) and PM/AM (1982). She is the recipient of a Ruth Lily Poetry Award for Lifetime Achievement and has served as the
Poet Laureate of Maryland. Her other books of poetry include Insomnia (2015), Traveling Light (2011); Queen of a Rainy Country (2006); The Last Uncle (2002); An Early Afterlife (l995); Heroes In Disguise (1991); The Imperfect Paradise (1988), a nominee for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; The Five Stages of Grief (l978); and A Perfect Circle of Sun (l971). Her many awards and honors include a Pushcart Prize, a Dylan Thomas Award, the Di Castagnola Award, the Bess Hokin Prize, the Maurice English Award, and the Charity Randall Citation. She was a recipient of a Radcliffe College Distinguished Alumnae Award. Linda Pastan lives in Potomac, Maryland.
It's not simply the wish to have company or to be unconditionally loved. It's something much more instinctive, even primal. Perhaps when our ancestors were domesticating dogs by long-ago campfires, a process that took years, we were learning to need them as they would learn to need us.
Linda Pastan's A Dog Runs Through It is a heartfelt and whimsical collection of poems about the dogs that have enriched her life. A perfect gift for book and dog lovers!
Applying to Bellagio
They take husbands,
but they don't take dogs.
Ridiculous!
and all because
they fear that barking
may disturb the muse.
Just ask Calliope.
I'm sure she'd choose
a silky spaniel
with a fluent tail
for inspiration, not
some human male.
I guess I'll have to stay
at home to write,
with dog and husband both
here, in plain sight.
Linda Pastan is the two-time National Book Award finalist for Carnival Evening (W.W. Norton 1998) and PM/AM (1982). She is the recipient of a Ruth Lily Poetry Award for Lifetime Achievement and has served as the
Poet Laureate of Maryland. Her other books of poetry include Insomnia (2015), Traveling Light (2011); Queen of a Rainy Country (2006); The Last Uncle (2002); An Early Afterlife (l995); Heroes In Disguise (1991); The Imperfect Paradise (1988), a nominee for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; The Five Stages of Grief (l978); and A Perfect Circle of Sun (l971). Her many awards and honors include a Pushcart Prize, a Dylan Thomas Award, the Di Castagnola Award, the Bess Hokin Prize, the Maurice English Award, and the Charity Randall Citation. She was a recipient of a Radcliffe College Distinguished Alumnae Award. Linda Pastan lives in Potomac, Maryland.
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Published 2018-06-01 by W.W. Norton |