Dog Songs and A Thousand Mornings: Deluxe Edition Audiobook

A New York Times bestselling poetry collection, featuring both Dog Songs and A Thousand Mornings Mary Oliver’s Dog Songs is a celebration of the special bond between human and dog, as understood through the poet’s relationships to the canines that have accompanied her daily walks, warmed her home, and inspired her work. Oliver’s poems begin in the small everyday moments familiar to all dog lovers, but through her extraordinary vision, these observations become higher meditations on the world and our place in it. Dog Songs includes visits with old friends, like Oliver’s beloved Percy, and introduces still others in poems of love and laughter, heartbreak and grief. Throughout, the many dogs of Oliver’s life merge as fellow travelers and as guides, uniquely able to open our eyes to the lessons of the moment and the joys of nature and connection.  In A Thousand Mornings, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has come to define her life’s work, transporting us to the marshland and coastline of her beloved home, Provincetown, Massachusetts. Whether studying the leaves of a tree or mourning her treasured dog Percy, Oliver is open to the teachings contained in the smallest of moments and explores with startling clarity, humor, and kindness the mysteries of our daily experience.

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“Mary Oliver’s wise, lived-in voiceis just the one you want to be pouring these dog songs into your ears, andanyone who has loved a dog will thank her for this audiobook. It’s a vividcollection of portraits of beloved beasts past and present and an explorationof the many ways we love dogs—their devotion, patience, comedy, manifold sins—andexperience the pain of losing them. Many of us cherish dogs in our lives, butpoets come at things differently, and no one knows better than she does how herlines should strike and fall. Her hymn to the anarchic joy of a dog off leashis one every city dog would sing every morning. An audiobook to savor andrepeat.”

— AudioFile