Carmela Ciuraru

Doggerel

Poems About Dogs

Buch

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-narr… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-4000-4037-7
EAN: 9781400040377
Produktnummer: 8214979
Verlag: Random House N.Y.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
Seitenangabe: 256 S.

Über den Autor

Carmela Ciuraru is the editor of the anthology First Loves: Poets Introduce the Essential Poems That Captivated and Inspired Them, and the former editor of the Journal of the Poetry Society of America. A graduate of Columbia University's School of Journalism, she lives in New York City.