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maimona's review
3.0
Absolutely a gorgeous way to describe the relationship between a human and his dog, for he doesn't own that dog as a possession!
Though I don't know much about taking care or having dogs at home. I could only feel the author feelings all the time! I thought she must have loved her dog so much!
Her feelings and the way she writes the poems made me relate to them, though they are about dogs, one can see them happen between people!
Most of the poems are straightforward telling a story, and others they tell something important and those I liked more
I recommend it for dog lovers, I am sure they would love to read the feelings of another person who is so devoted to his dog!
Though I don't know much about taking care or having dogs at home. I could only feel the author feelings all the time! I thought she must have loved her dog so much!
Her feelings and the way she writes the poems made me relate to them, though they are about dogs, one can see them happen between people!
Most of the poems are straightforward telling a story, and others they tell something important and those I liked more
I recommend it for dog lovers, I am sure they would love to read the feelings of another person who is so devoted to his dog!
erileyu's review
5.0
Some of my favorite excerpts:
For when he lay down to enter sleep he did not argue about whether or not God made him.
“I like everything a lot, every day."
Well, see? Just keep on liking things.
And praying.
"I don't know anything about that."
Yes you do. Every time you wake up and love your life and the world, you're praying, my dear boy. I'm sure of it.
The moon rises, so beautiful it makes me shudder, makes me think about time and space, makes me take measure of myself: one iota pondering heaven. Thus we sit, myself thinking how grateful I am for the moon's perfect beauty and also, oh! how rich it is to love the world. Percy, meanwhile, leans against me and gazes up into my face. As though I were just as wonderful as the perfect moon.
But I want to extol not the sweetness nor the placidity of the dog, but the wilderness out of which he cannot step entirely, and from which we benefit. For wilderness is our first home too, and in our wild ride into modernity with all its concerns and problems we need also all the good attachments to that origin that we can keep or restore. Dog is one of the messengers of that rich and still magical first world.
For when he lay down to enter sleep he did not argue about whether or not God made him.
“I like everything a lot, every day."
Well, see? Just keep on liking things.
And praying.
"I don't know anything about that."
Yes you do. Every time you wake up and love your life and the world, you're praying, my dear boy. I'm sure of it.
The moon rises, so beautiful it makes me shudder, makes me think about time and space, makes me take measure of myself: one iota pondering heaven. Thus we sit, myself thinking how grateful I am for the moon's perfect beauty and also, oh! how rich it is to love the world. Percy, meanwhile, leans against me and gazes up into my face. As though I were just as wonderful as the perfect moon.
But I want to extol not the sweetness nor the placidity of the dog, but the wilderness out of which he cannot step entirely, and from which we benefit. For wilderness is our first home too, and in our wild ride into modernity with all its concerns and problems we need also all the good attachments to that origin that we can keep or restore. Dog is one of the messengers of that rich and still magical first world.
dghoiem's review
2.0
A Pulitzer Prize winning poet writing poems about dogs...yes please. There were a few lines here and there that were funny. A couple that were moving and made me think of my own dogs from the past, but overall it was just ok for me, dawg.
khandle3's review
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
5.0
being moonshine’s mom is truly the greatest joy of my life thus far. this book perfectly captured why.
Content Warnings
Minor: Animal death